The Scientific Revolution played a role within the Enlightenment in shifting from a medieval world view to a modern world view. The Enlightenment had a whole new sense of power from the new ideas and discoveries made during the Scientific Revolution The Scientific Revolution basically started when philosophers were disproving prior scientific knowledge. The evidence and work that philosophers were using to disprove prior theories were immediately put to shame. It was a big deal to go against the Church; it was as if the philosophers were trying to make the Church look unreliable. Throughout the years of the Scientific Revolution, many philosophers stepped forward to prove their discoveries, which ended up disproving prior theories. This was
