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    Renaissance? P.J. O’Rourke stated “Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don’t count modern civilization.” This statement refers to the vast amount of advances made during the period. The long-lasting achievements in technology, science, mathematics, geography, and philosophy is the reason the Renaissance era is what sparked the advancement of civilization. The term renaissance originates from the French word renaistre, which is defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary as…

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    Awakening and Enlightenment In the late 1600-1700’s many Europeans began to believe that the light of human reason and science could be applied to society. Western Europe and the New World went from a God-centered way of life to a man-centered centered view of life with the use of the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment began in Europe it emphasized reason, science, and observation and led to the discovery of natural laws. Copernicus, Galileo, Locke, Franklin, and Newton…

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    (1837-1901) was characterized as a time of technological invasion. Science was rapidly introduced into the lives of individuals and it was evident that science was going to dramatically change the world. Inventions galore, combined with the professionalization and institutionalization of science, challenged authors, including Robert Louis Stevenson and Nathanial Hawthorne, with the task of determining how to portray the role of science in their written works. Stevenson and Hawthorne both chose…

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    Science started to attract followers that believed its theories that opposed to those of the church, while religion was just faith. Many were working aside from the church’s beliefs and making way for science to explain the secrets of the unknown. During this time not only did scientific areas prosper, but also areas in economic and governmental views.…

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    White published an article in the Science journal that ushered in years of debate over the role of Christianity in the ecological crisis that the world is in today. In his article, White argued that Christianity is anthropocentric in nature, meaning that the religion views the world through a point of view that is human-centered. Subsequently, White makes a case regarding the role of Christianity 's anthropocentrism in contributing to the development of science and technology with a Western lens…

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    ecclesiastics struggled to explain the inconsistencies in the doctrines of Christianity and its many diverging theories. Under the fire of the Enlightenment, the Devil lost all credibility and almost disappeared as progress were made in multiple fields of science; to cope with the rising skepticism, Christianity had to adapt and change its outdated traditions which ultimately was more devastating than helpful. When mentioning the Enlightenment one always think of the great philosophers first…

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    happened often. The scientific method is now a necessary tool in order to distinguish between pseudoscience and science. For the duration of this paper I will examine the Childbed Fever case and critically examine the scientific approach taken with this case in order to avoid the original pseudoscience that occurred which will lead into the pseudoscience that was accepted before science occurred, which will then be provided with another example of pseudoscience. ChildBed Fever is an epidemic…

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    democracy in the American revolution. Everything builds on something previous. The legacies of the past have a lasting effect on the world today. Religion, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment all were the basis of progress in the world, such as the United States’ government, the Egyptian revolution, and the scientific prowess of the world. Religion has been a pillar of…

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    Galileo: Science, Scripture, and Truth Among the academics that fostered growth in developing European society and scholasticism, Galileo Galilei holds a hierarchy attributable to the highly dynamic time period that his life spanned, as well as an unmatchable intellect that fostered vital observations in the sixteenth century. Often defamed for his religiously controversial discoveries and scientific ideals, Galileo repeatedly rose to contest institutions, like the Catholic church and its…

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    European views of science like most things has changed over the years. Previously from what we know as the medieval age science was based off the thoughts of Ancient Greek philosophers such as Aristotle. Aristotle had ideas on how the world should be studied. He liked to make detailed observations of the world. He dissected animals to learn their anatomy. Aristotle classified animals and drew pictures of animal body parts and tried to determine organ function.technological advances made by the…

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