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It was a profound change in intellectual thought in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Of all the changes that swept over Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the most widely influential was an epistemological transformation that we call the "scientific revolution." In the popular mind, we associate this revolution with natural science and technological change, but the scientific revolution was, in reality, a series of changes in the structure of European thought itself: systematic doubt, empirical and sensory verification, the abstraction of human knowledge into separate sciences, and the view that the world functions like a machine. These changes greatly changed the human experience of every other aspect of life, from individual life to the life of the group. This modification in world view can also be charted in painting, sculpture and architecture; you can see that people of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are looking at the world very differently.
A particular fact being scientific is just a matter of observations. However, we are not aware of all the facts in the universe. So, if a hypothesis is not scientific by today's standards, it does not mean that it is entirely unreasonable. Things which were thought to be unreasonable centuries ago and perfectly within reason now - just look at an aeroplane.
The scientific method was developed over a few centuries, especially in the Renaissance. Galileo had a big part on developing it. Francis Bacon developed the scientific method.
There are scientific laws and theories in which recorded and observable data indicate are true. But sometimes new findings come along, which can throw a wrench into things until information is sorted out and a greater understanding evolves.
They suggested that reason could provide answers about the world that tradition and religion could not. (C)
The scientific revolution began during the end of the Renaissance era. It lasted throughout the 17th and 18th centuries.
It was a profound change in intellectual thought in the 16th and 17th centuries.
The scientific revolution began in Europe at the end of the Renaissance era and continued through the late 18th century. This is mostly associated with the 16th and 17th centuries.
17th -18th centuries
The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment led to a shift towards empirical observation, logic, and reason as the basis for understanding the world. This encouraged questioning of traditional beliefs and authority, leading to an emphasis on individual rights, freedom of thought, and the idea of progress through scientific inquiry and innovation. These movements also helped to promote a more secular worldview, separating religion from scientific inquiry and governance.
They suggested that reason could provide answers about the world that tradition and religion could not. (C)
The principles of the Scientific Revolution, which held that everything including the government was worth examination and scrutiny, spread to these philosophies; our early political scientist.
The philosophical movement that led to the revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries was the Enlightenment. This period emphasized reason, science, individual rights, and the questioning of traditional authority, which ultimately influenced revolutions such as the American Revolution and the French Revolution.
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The "Scientific Revolution" did not weaken the Catholic Church, the Scientific Revolution was brought about by the Catholic Church. Nearly everyone who contributed to it for centuries was Catholic, in many notable cases, they were even clergy or monks. People of a protestant or secular viewpoint often make the claim that the scientific revolution led to a weakening of the Church because the Church relied on things not seen, while science relied on provable facts, but this is a straw argument, and doesn't touch the reality that everyone actually doing the science was a Catholic.
Of all the changes that swept over Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the most widely influential was an epistemological transformation that we call the "scientific revolution." In the popular mind, we associate this revolution with natural science and technological change, but the scientific revolution was, in reality, a series of changes in the structure of European thought itself: systematic doubt, empirical and sensory verification, the abstraction of human knowledge into separate sciences, and the view that the world functions like a machine. These changes greatly changed the human experience of every other aspect of life, from individual life to the life of the group. This modification in world view can also be charted in painting, sculpture and architecture; you can see that people of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are looking at the world very differently.