Late 19th Century Advacements in Science

“Belle Epoque”:The Good Ol’ Days…

NeifferAP European History

Capital High School Social Studies

Advances in science

Louis Pasteur

• Germ theory of disease• Pasteurization: Reduces

food poisoning

Joseph Lister

• “Antiseptic principle”

Dmitri Mendeleev

• Periodic Table of the elements

August Comte

• Father of “sociology”• Positivism: intellectual

activity goes through predictable stages

Charles Darwin

• On the Origin of Species by the Means of Natural Selection

• Theory of evolution• Criticism of the Book of

Genesis

Herbert Spencer

• Social Darwinism• “Survival of the Fittest”

Sigmund “Siggy” Freud

• Human as irrational creature

• Human subconscious (“the ID”) is not subject to reason

• Founder of psychoanalysis

Albert Einstein

• German, then American• Theory of relativity• E=MC2

And the not-so-goodol’ days

Fredrich Nietzsche

• “God is dead”• Will to Power