The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Honor can be defined by as in high respect or esteem. I would define it as something that is thought highly of and deserves to be so. It is something earned rightfully based on achievements and actions. There are many scientists who exemplify honor through their work. One of these is Isaac Newton. His accomplishments, recognition from the community, and impact on the science world define him as honorable. Isaac Newton accomplished many things over his lifetime as a scientist. He is best known…

In Dr. Michael Shermer's most recent book, The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom, he proposes that we are living in the best time of our species' history. Shermer contends that the ascent of exchange and ascent of proficiency through the Industrial Revolution's requirement for profoundly taught learning laborers, has made an "ethical Flynn impact" and prompted to societies with lower rates of vicious wrongdoing. Shermer contends that the ascent of…

You may have thought that the Scientific Revolution and The Enlightenment were the same, but there are several differences.The difference between the two is that The Enlightenment focused on the mental and physical actions and how man related to one another, while The Scientific Revolution concentrated on the physical world and how man related to it. The Scientific Revolution was in the 17th century (1543-1687). In The Scientific Revolution mathematics was key to understanding the nature of…

now. This explained why the continents could fit together like jigsaw puzzles and that similar fossils could be found on the coastlines of landmasses separated by thousands of miles (Continents: A Jigsaw Puzzle with No Mechanism Pg. 2). The larger scientific community came after Wegner like a witch hunt, scrutinizing his findings, largely because he was a meteorologist by trade and was viewed as an untrained…

Hobbes thought that all events in the world, without limitation, can be described regarding the actions and interactions of physical bodies. He did not think the soul, or in the brain as separate from the heart, or in any of the other spiritual and mystical entities in which different authors have thought. Alternately, he saw individual beings as binding devices, with even their dreams and passions operating according to natural laws and connections of cause and effect, movement, and feeling. As…

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries saw a radical intellectual evolution in Europe, commonly referred to as the Age of Enlightenment. Freed from the previous supposition that humanity was subject to the unknowable will of God, and emboldened by recent scientific advances that made the mysteries of the natural world suddenly knowable, the Enlightenment Thinkers believed in the power of investing intellectual capital to improve the human condition. One of the most influential of the…

should remain eternal and changeless. A creature’s structure should be comprehended from its function. I came up with these opinions due to the limitation of what I had seen and heard. Now I realize that it is not senses that tie us down (Lindberg 14), but limited sense experiences. Darwin was lucky to have taken a five-year voyage during which he spotted numerous similar species and primitive fossils. Both Darwin and Newton succeeded in making a scientific masterpiece after struggling through…

The developments from 1492-1687 created a new profound feeling of humanism and individualism throughout Europe. Scientific thought made humanity think of themselves as individuals rather than blindly following the church. Exploration boosted the confidence of Europeans through new discoveries and overall created a different look at life. Throughout the 15th, 16th, and 17th century there were many developments in science which caused people to reevaluate how they thought. Scientists of the time…

This also led to another famous method: The scientific method that we’ve had to learn and put to the test at some point. The basis for this is Observation, the reason for why something is what is, do research, conduct a hypothesis, and then test your findings with an experiment. His rules stated in principia say “1) we are to admit no more causes of natural things such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances, (2) the same natural effects must be assigned to the same causes,…

world begun to change. Moreover, it led to two periods, the Scientific Revolution (16th to 18th century) and the Enlightenment period (17th to the 18th century), that one may consider as the foundations, not only the modern European thoughts, but also the way of functioning of the entire world. As Machio Keku, an American Theory physicist said, “Scientific revolutions, almost by definition, defy common sense”. Before the Scientific Revolution, the world was driven by stagnant thoughts of…