Thanks to the perfect ingredients of the Industrial Revolution (1770 – 1840), Scientific Revolution (1543 – 1700) and the Enlightenment (1685 – 1815), the Modern Revolution was a time of great innovation and development for the world. It resulted in higher literacy and innovation rates and lowered death due to disease.
Q. Who is the most important thinker of the scientific revolution?
Galileo Galilei
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Q. Who was involved in the scientific revolution?
Many cite this era as the period during which modern science truly came to fruition, noting Galileo Galilei as the “father of modern science.” This post will cover the contributions of three highly important scientists from the era of the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution: Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei.
Q. Why there should be a scientific revolution?
The Scientific Revolution should still be considered “a” revolution, because it both challenged the institution of thought in place and and created a starting point for revolutions to continue from. Furthermore, The Scientific Revolution represents a central point in time that science now has continued to evolve from.
Q. What is the usual story of the scientific revolution?
Working Definition: By tradition, the “Scientific Revolution” refers to historical changes in thought & belief, to changes in social & institutional organization, that unfolded in Europe between roughly 1550-1700; beginning with Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543), who asserted a heliocentric (sun-centered) cosmos, it …
Q. How did the Enlightenment thinkers use the scientific method?
Philosophers saw scientists use reasoning, empirical analysis, and the scientific method to disprove previously-held beliefs and discover physical laws, such as the properties of matter and energy. They were confident that they could use reasoning to discover natural laws and use them to improve government and society.
