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    In world history we have come across many different changes.Revolution can bring about both positive and negative affect also political and economical effect.There were many changes in the scientific revolution and the Industrial Revolution. Both revolutions had an impact on the world. The scientific revolution is the emerge of modern science during the early modern period when developments in mathematics,physics,biology and chemistry transformed views of society and nature also the way human…

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    whether or not there was a Scientific Revolution during the 15th and 17th century. Political revolutions are easy to identify, due to actual events that occurred, which often identify as life altering events, such as change of regimes. However, social, cultural and intellectual revolutions on the other hand are more difficult to identify. They are often slower, and less momentous, but their impact on society are far greater than any political uprising. One of these revolutions that is harder to…

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    The modern church is yet to get on the same page with scientific revolution. The war between religion and science has been in play for centuries and with technology growing at the current lightening speed, the science side will take fewer casualties this time unlike before. Both science and religion were in existence by the 16th and 17th centuries and so was their war. The Catholic Church was full with fear that heretics would spread opinions and teachings that were in contradiction with the…

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    The view of the world was altered through the Scientific Revolution’s intellectual developments. Ideas were proposed to Europeans offering a different way of understanding through logical thinking and scientific methods. Conflicts occurred due to the interference of philosophers’ theories and religion’s teachings. Although theology remained to be valued and well respected, the works of scientists during the sixteenth and seventeenth century were influenced by the authority of the church, as well…

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    understand why this period would transition into a Scientific Revolution. With renewed vigor in the arts and a need for explanations, people used science to try to find answers to their new questions whether it was about our world or the universe around us. Of course, with new discoveries being made by scientists, the old theocentric views of the Medieval period slowly were challenged and put at rest. Specifically, beginning with Copernicus’ “On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres,” the…

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    The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment can be referred to as extensive moments of realization where one finds a question to have multiple answers instead of only one. The Scientific Revolution was the very beginning of a radical chain of events that started with the emergence of modern science that further transformed the views on society and nature. Sparked by the critical way of thinking, intellectual forces rejected traditional ideas and began to question the functions of society…

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    Scientific Revolution Harshendra Shah B.Tech(CSE), IIIT Vadodara Date : 12th March, 2018 Introduction : There are infinite outcomes to every minor event in our lives, and each of those possible outcomes will have tremendous impact on the future. Of course, these laws are taken for granted by most of us, but in looking at them we could better understand the present with respect to our past. In this case the Scientific Revolution was the beginning of the Age of Enlightenment, which eventually…

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    Prior to the Scientific Revolution, the only way people accepted ideas about the universe was because it had been passed down based on authority. The people with authority only told you what they wanted you to hear and kept the stories from their past families. As the reading states, “ If only the concerns of the powerful provide the interpretation of historical significance, then much of history will be left out.” The Scientific Revolution brought on a new attitude, because people became more…

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    Revolutionary Scientific Revolution Humankind went from believing in the heavens to believing in the universe. However, the question that stands is what really sparked this mental shift. Many historians attribute it to the scientific revolution because many big scientific discoveries which greatly challenged religion began. Moreover, the scientific revolution began a period of people building upon each other's ideas to get to new conclusions.Some might argue that the scientific revolution was…

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    The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment are typically taught alongside one another and share connections. The Scientific Revolution was first brought about around the year 1540 and continued until the 1700s. European scholars used the time to understand the fundamentals in which the natural world worked, which are used in modern science today. Rather than be called scientists, they referred to themselves as natural philosophers instead. The Enlightenment began after the Scientific…

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