| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Mendeleyev | Chemist who made foundation for periodic law (classification by weight); |
| Faraday | He was a scientist who established electromagnetic induction, a primitive generator, and the foundation for electricity |
| Charles Darwin | studied adaptations/mutations of the animals/plants in Galapogos islands compared to the mainland |
| On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection | It is the first book by Darwin that stated that the mutations that benifit an organism are passed down through heredity and eventualy cause an evolution in the species (survival of the fitest) |
| Louis Pasteur | We was a chemist (and Christian) who established that disease was dirived from virus's and bacterium (germ theory) as well as vaccination |
| Pasteurization | A process in which food stuffs is heated to kill harmful substances (created by Pasteur) |
| Lister | He was a scientist who came up with antiseptic principle (instead of liquor) |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | She was the first woman to get into medical school |
| Comte | He applied the scientific methods to society; theory of scientific developement with 3 stages (theology/religion, metaphysical/reason, positive/observation) |
| System of Positive Philosophy | Comte's book, in which he urged society to strip of traditions and move to a positive thinking patern |
| Theological | 1st of Comte's 'stages'; "God/ a spirit wills it" |
| Metaphysical | 2nd of Comte's 'stages'; "Nature of heavy objects to fall" |
| Positive | 3rd of Comte's 'stages'; "Law of Gravity" |
| The Descent of Man | It is a book by Darwin that shocked the world, broke from tradition |
| Doller Vote | Vote by spending your money on what you want |
| Madame bovary | book by Gustave Flaubert; comparison of Romantic and Realist |
| The Stonebreakers | painting by Gustave Courbet, illustrating the miserys and struggles of life |
| Gustave Courbet | Most famous realist painter, also did the stonebreakers |
| Millet | Realist painter; painted rural life; "bridge" between romanticism & realism |
| The Gleaners | Painting by Millet, illustrating and giving value to the working class in the field |
| Decadents | What was the bourgeoise's phony, fake, empty, appeasment that realist writers were rebelling against? |
| Stream of Conciousness | What was used to describe Emma's inner life in Madame Bovary? |
| Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero | Book where all the charrie's are flawed, realistic; not heroic, romantic (by William Thackeray) |
| Liszt | Romantic pianist, symphonic poem who was also involved in New German School (of music) |
| Wagner | Gesamtkunstwerk- total music(?), the Ring of the Nibelung, manipulated by Hitler |
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