DBQ ESSAY
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Scientific Revolution, which was the development of new sciences and technology, and The Age of Enlightenment, which was the so called “age of reason”, had sparked women’s participation in sciences. Ever since Europe was moving towards the modern world, women had been trying to change their social status from regular housework and staying at home to getting better jobs such as teaching and learning science. Although this was a great change for women, there were changing attitudes and views toward them when they had participated in science. Dorothea Erxleben, a German M.D. had appreciated that she learned science, but other people, such as men felt that they she and along with other women are taking away man’s superiority role in society. There were defiantly both pros and cons towards women’s participation in science. (Document 9) The Scientific Revolution and The Age of Enlightenment paved the brink of women’s success in science. Technologies such as the sextant, which was a tool used for calculating the altitude of objects and the telescope gave women the chance to study astronomy, which was the most popular subject during that time. Women would work rigor
Bias, which means a given statement that has two different point of views had gave women the uncertainty of whether people were for or against their actions for studying science. Based on some men and women, they had felt that women should stay silent in society and limit their learning of arts, science and literature, but when those women become a major part of the society by publishing books and teaching other women subjects, they feel that women can support men’s hard work and increase education in society. According to Johann Junker, who is the head figure of the University of Halle, he felt that women have the ability to learn science and arts, but need to limit it to a point where attention does not create a lot of attraction for other women and men. This means their education is average, but is not allowed to bring more attention on themselves along with their looks and appeals. Men had allowed women to participate in science for women’s own benefit because they wanted them to learn what was going on in the world and to develop better ways to support the household. Women were given some freedom of studying, but it was limited to a point where their statuses can never become equal to men. (Documents 2, 9, 10) Although women has the ability to use reason and science to expand their knowledge and the ability to work hard night and day, such as Marquise Emilie du Chatelet, a French aristocrat and scientist, who has stated “I must do this or lose the fruit of my labors if I should die in childbirth.
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Age Enlightenment,
Discourse Method,
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Chatelet French,
Gottingen Newspaper,
Maria Winkelmann,
German MD,
Rights Woman,
Rene Descartes,
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Approximate Word count = 1030
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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