1700s Scientific Revolution

Up until the 1700s religious scripture and ideology has ruled how man has thought of the world. The religious base for all facts and information drove what we as humans thought of biology and the human body. In the start of the 1st century at the beginnings of Christianity the religious based information was continued and spread further and stronger. It wasn't until the time of the Enlightenment around the 1700’s that the ideas were truly questioned and put to test through factual experiments and reasoning. The advancements made in science during the enlightenment and the scientific revolution transformed the field of biology from largely being driven by a social and religious viewpoint to turning solely to data and facts.
Biology didn’t follow
His theory of matter for life was accepted by other scientists of the time. Aristotle capitalized on this theory with his belief that everything fell into the category of inanimate, sea and air, plants, or, animals, which were at the top. Aristotle would observe animals and he categorized them into major groups. In Egypt “scientists” used herbs and other ingredients for what they thought of as “magic” to help life grow and heal the sick. Ancient egyptian scientists were mostly priests and learned their craft in places inside of temples called the “House of Life”. They were less interested in general principles and pure research than in solving particular problems. Their methodological tools included analogy, approximation, comparison, definition, description, etymology, schematization, and sequences. These were budding idea of the scientific revolution and the enlightenment which were to change Biology
It contained beautiful engravings (drawings) of many of the magnified images he had produced. Among them were a fly’s compound eye, plant cells, and the bodies of lice, fleas, and other insects.(Nardo 73)

All of these scientists changed the scope of history through their research, experiments, and inventions. These scientists advanced the spectrum of biology and they were driven to do these wonderful things by accepting and innovating on the ideas and views of the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment’s “principal legacy to humanity was to create the fertile soil from which modern science grew”(Nardo 86). The core belief of the Enlightenment was that “nature works by scientific principles”(Nardo 88). Another belief of the Enlightenment is that the nature world can be understood through reason and experiments and it can be manipulated or engineered(Nardo 88). All of the scientists and innovators of the time of the Enlightenment followed this basic principle by trying to prove the science and disprove the beliefs and religious viewpoints. These scientist brought forth the development of scientific universities along with leading universities having professorships of science and mathematics(textbook 495?). This view of the natural world and how