Reminder - The question for the unit essay is "Should political decision be made from the top down (traditional) or bottom up (liberal)? You should be starting to organize your ideas and evidence for answering this question.
Source # 1 - Video about Newton and his discoveries - click here
Source # 2 - The British Enlightenment Poet wrote the following in 1793 with the intention that it be used as the epitaph on Newton's grave at Westminster Abby - "Nature and Nature's laws lay hid by night: God said, Let Newton be! and all was light." The Church authorities at Westminster Abby refused to allow this to be Newton's epitaph.
Source # 3 - Video on Lavoisier and the scientific method - click here
Source # 4 - The British Royal Society for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded in Britain in 1662 has the motto "Nullius in verba", which is roughly translated at "Take nobody's word for it".
