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Isaac Newton Before The Scientific Revolution

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Before the scientific revolution and enlightenment thinkers, the western European people acted like a bunch of lost puppies. Most believed the universe was actually split into two spheres; a corrupt and imperfect world here on the earth and the perfect, heavenly, world far away out there which is where people believed was heaven and where the good souls would ascend to after mortal death. Most also believed the world was flat and also that it was in the center of the universe. The reasoning behind this mentality of the western European people is due to the Christian church propagandizing the people. Without a clue of what they were shoving down these people’s throats, they did just that with whatever they thought seemed believable. The universe …show more content…

Isaac Newton, known by some to be the smartest man of his time, tops the list of discoveries that de-mystified the secrets of the universe. Isaac Newton discovered something that has always been there but nobody was ever able to analyze it. This was the law of motion or force. Isaac Newton helped all people understand the science behind gravity being simply put as; “nothing moves unless there is a force that is causing the object to move.” Newton helped people truly understand the universe to eliminate the fear that one day the stars would collide with each other or that one day the Earth would collide with another star, ending all of …show more content…

First proposed in 1774 Montesquieu proposed to have three branches of government that would each be equal in power. The first branch would enact, amend, and abrogate laws. The role of the second branch would be to protect the society from internal and external threats and last but not least; the third punishes criminals, or determines the disputes that arise between individuals in society. Even though the people in these branches were not voted in the way we do it at this day and age here in America, splitting the power equally into three branches in the 1700’s gave people a lot more organization and less fear of officials now that order has been contrived. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was another enlightenment thinker and he raises a good point by mentioning how private property was not building our community better but breaking it down. He believes that before private property, everybody had nothing which means there was nothing to complain or argue over. He stresses how if one has more than another, misery forms inside the individual that holds less value. He also mentions a very powerful quote stating, “The fruits of the earth belong to everyone and that the earth itself belongs to no

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