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    Thirty Years War and Scientific Revolution were two major causes that led to the developing of a new intellectual and philosophical movement called Enlightenment, or the Age of Reason. Religion, power of human reason, natural law, individualism, hope, progress and many other concepts were combined into a worldview that contributed to new innovations and changed people’s lives and visions. This period marked the importance of science. By using the scientific method, people were able to make progress

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    Studying the Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment, French Revolutions, Revolutions of 1830/1848, and the Industrial Revolution has shown that these revolutions have similarities and differences. While some revolutions have been more successful than others, each revolution is unique in its own way. In addition, each revolution had various factors that caused the uprisings. The causes of the Scientific Revolution consist of many things. The Scientific Revolution occurred during the Renaissance period

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    The scientific revolution, like most revolutions in human history, was met with great resistance. The most powerful of them all the church. For centuries human kind had submitted itself to the set ways of the church. Followed biblical teachings blindly. In case where these teaching were questioned or challenged, people would be tried for heresy and condemned to death. It was a slow long process. Oftentimes stalled by fear and other times by general ignorance. Chance was unavoidable, quietly, slowly

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    Few revolutions throughout history have surpassed the Scientific Revolution and the Neolithic Revolution, in terms of importance and impact on humanity. The Scientific Revolution was, arguably, started by Nicolaus Copernicus in 1543, and was when thinkers in Europe stopped allowing the Church to hinder their scientific ideas, and began using the scientific method (O.I.). The Neolithic Revolution was when humans began to domesticate plants and animals, and began to live together in villages and towns

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    possible for a revolution to occur overnight? No. A Revolution is the wish to overthrow a government or social belief to achieve a new political or belief system in the course of several years. These revolts or breakthroughs tend to occur when the essential needs of the common people are not being met. Between 1500-1800 in Europe, literature also reflected historical events including famous romantic novels such as Frankenstein and A Tale of Two Cities. For my Winter Trimester Final in Revolutions in Thought

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    to argue that Thomas Kuhn was incorrect when he presented his theory that no paradigm is better than any other paradigm and how he believed that people who occupy different paradigms are in different universes, in his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. I believe that there is no valid deductive or inductive support for incommensurability, there are examples against it throughout the history of science that do not exhibit the discontinuity and replacement of paradigms, as Kuhn’s incommensurability

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    The Scientific Revolution Have you ever thought when the humanity stepped into a new era of its history? It happened during The Scientific Revolution when humans' views on nature and the world were drastically transformed with the help of discoveries in the field of physics, science, mathematics chemistry, biology, and astronomy. That period of the history was very important for humanity because of the collapse of the ancient-medieval picture of the world, new scientific discoveries and the interaction

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    by scientists. The world before the time when scientific reasoning had largely influenced Europe was filled with the minds of people whose thoughts stuck and mainly believed in the old judgements and ideas formed by old philosophers forming the medieval traditional view. That view was spread all throughout Europe and the church supported these beliefs too further accomplishing the influence the old view had on the people before the Scientific Revolution. However, when people tried accomplishing new

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    scientists and thinkers. How was the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment a sharp break from the past? The Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment were extremely different than what the past was. They both encouraged a new type of thinking: what is rational, and what is not. They both also aspired to have new ideas, and new ways of believing. In the Medieval Ages, rationality was never considered, nor were new ideas. This is how the Scientific Revolution and

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    The Structure of the Scientific Revolution by Thomas Kuhn explains how most people in the science community interpret accurately how they see science. The book begins with a chapter on how scientist have to have a set of belief that is the basis for what they are doing. When new phenomenon occur that have not been explained new theories are created on those events and tested so that people can learn why the event occurred in the first place. Then Kuhn elaborates on the route of normal science with

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