1. U.S. History Chapter 5: Life in the English Colonies Section 5: American Culture

4. New Ideas in Europe Galileo Galilei

5. New Ideas in Europe Galileo’s Telescope

6. New Ideas in Europe What?! The Earth revolves around the Sun?!

7. New Ideas in Europe Galileo on Trial

8. Thanks to his intuition as a brilliant physicist and by relying on different arguments, Galileo, who practically invented the experimental method, understood why only the sun could function as the centre of the world, as it was then known, that is to say, as a planetary system. The error of the theologians of the time, when they maintained the centrality of the earth, was to think that our understanding of the physical world's structure was, in some way, imposed by the literal sense of Sacred Scripture.... – Pope John Paul II

9. New Ideas in Europe Issac Newton

10. New Ideas in Europe Newton under the Apple Tree

29. Benjamin Franklin

30. Benjamin Franklin Published The Philadelphia Gazette

31. Benjamin Franklin Published Poor Richard’s Almanac

32. Benjamin Franklin Franklin Stove

33. Benjamin Franklin Bifocals

34. Benjamin Franklin Franklin Stove

35. Benjamin Franklin Kite Experiment

36. Benjamin Franklin Lightning Rod

37. Benjamin Franklin Glass Armonica