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    The Revolution That Changed History Forever The Scientific Revolution was one of the most revolutionary time periods in human history, because the Catholic Church was tested and the human race was enlighten. Also, during this specific revolution specific scientists and enlighten thinkers contributed heavily to the advancement of human history. This period is explained as modern methods of scientific inquiry being established, and associated with great discoveries of the first modern scientists (Scientific

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    In chapter nine, The Scientific Revolution: Rationalism and the Modern Worldview, Wells discusses the changes the Scientific Revolution brought about in Europe. Wells starts of the chapter by saying that any time people hear the world “revolution,” it is usually tied together with change of some kind. One of the ideas, that changed in the Scientific Revolution was the idea humanism. Humanism was always presents in secularity; however, it was not realized until between the Renaissance and the Reformation

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    The scientific revolution was the most important of all revolutions for more reasons than one. The first being that it has enlightened us to why things work. Also everyone now believes in and gives credit to science. Also even now everyday our lives are always being shaped by science. Without it we would not even be close to where we are now in life. People are now able to know why things work which was never possible before the scientific revolution. Copernicus taught us to fight back to nonbelievers

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    Discuss the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment along with the subsequent reaction as embodied by the Romantic movement. Give specific examples of how these movements affected the arts. What was their eventual impact on the western intellectual world. The Scientific revolution and The Enlightenment period overlapped by a hundred years and were co-occurring between 1650-1750. The Scientific Revolution happening first and beginning around 1600, was a period of time when new ideas and tools

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    The Scientific Revolution began long ago in the middle Ages (500-1250AD). The Scientific Revolution (1543- 1687) was a period of time in which many breakthrough discoveries were made in science and philosophy. The Scientific Revolution is a complicated movement upon whose periods and actors historians do not always agree. The Scientific revolution did not occur all at once, it developed over the course of a century with the aid of the early thinkers who included ancient Greeks, Islamic thinker, and

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    In Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn states that a paradigm shift is a revolutionary event as it causes the rise in a new era of science. A scientific revolution is when an older paradigm is replaced completely or partially by a new paradigm. As the understanding of science change, the more humans switch their world view. Thus, causing the rift between the support between the old paradigm and the new. When it does, both sides must find reasons to persuade others why the

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    In The Structure of the Scientific Revolutions, Thomas S. Kuhn precisely articulates the fundamental problems of the then current scientific historical model of knowledge acquired by accretion and posits a model that Kuhn defines as a pattern involving the “normal science”, the transitional “scientific revolution”, and the later “paradigm shift”. Kuhn continues in the same fashion as Karl Popper, Alexander Koyre and Paul Feyerabend in the continuing critique of a positivistic interpretation of the

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    How did the developments in scientific thought from Copernicus to Newton create a new conception of the universe and of humanity’s place within it? The Scientific Revolution was a time of scientific questioning in which tremendous discoveries were made about the Earth. It has been referred to as “the real origin both of the modern world and the modern mentality” (Mckay, 596) and caused the foremost change in the world-view. This revolution occurred for many reasons. Universities were established

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    by explaining Kuhn’s account of the structure of normal science and scientific revolutions. Firstly, normal science and revolutionary science are pieces of a paradigm. A paradigm, in turn, is a whole way of doing science. It is a package of claims about the world, habits of scientific thought and action, and methods for gathering and analyzing data (76). A paradigm is a belief that the community supports in terms of which scientific view is correct. For example, “the sun rises in the east each morning”

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    during this time. Bacon's scientific method has helped make experiments form reliable. The Scientific Revolution greatly affected the religious beliefs of church.This revolution was a positive change for the common people because it allowed people to be equal.Also I think the Scientific Revolution impacted the eighteenth centurys Europe in many ways such as giving society a sense of newfound independency, new discoveries, and new knowledge.People now have actual scientific knowledge of the human body

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