Similarities Between The Scientific Revolution And The Enlightenment

“The Scientific Revolution Outshines everything since the rise of christianity and reduces the reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal displacements within the system of medieval christianity.” Herbert Butterfield a british historian. Consider the time period in which Herbert makes this statement. It 1948, just a few years after Hiroshima, 78,000 men, women, and children died within fifteen minutes of dropping the atomic bomb. That is what science gave us the death of 78,000 people. In this essay I will be explaining to you what major events lead to the major intellectual change that finally led to the Enlightenment. The first major event that started the thought in the Revolutionaries mind that there would be more to life than
Everything we touch, see, smell, and hear is a product of science. In the 16th and 17th centuries, Scientists, Theologians, Philosophers and mathematicians were engaged in a vigorous debate over the natural world. The new focus on nature was a direct result of the collapse of Christian matrix. This is when we really start to see the change in intellectual change that had happened during the 16th and 17th centuries. The collapse of the Christian matrix was a result of a combination of forces which produced intellectual change. These forces were the Renaissance Reformation the age of exploration and the spirit of capitalism. When this happens we start to see that the nature of science starts to change. Knowledge was a major obstacle that the scientific revolutionaries had to face, which was essential to the change in the intellectual climate. Astronomy and mathematics has their own symbols which was basically their own language. Whereas Charlemagne had created a language called medieval latin, the language created by the scientific revolutionaries made a language of mathematics. This is where another change happens, where we start to see that the development of these single groups is largely important to the development of science itself. Because if mathematics didn’t have their symbols then there would have not been anything because basic measurement is mathematic all its
When a planet moves one way then stops and moves the other way. Two people by the names Tycho Brahe, and Johannes Kepler had both seen supernovas or explosion of an old stars, when they reported seeing very bright stars. The motions of the planets were complicated to understand than placing them. Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, devised a geocentric model in which planets orbited the Sun, which in turn orbited the Earth, and he amassed a huge set of data on the planetary positions. Johannes Kepler used Brahe's data to formulate Kepler's laws of planetary motion. Kepler mathematically proved that planets orbit the Sun in elliptical orbits. Johannes Kepler used Brahe's data to formulate Kepler's laws of planetary motion: 1. Planets move in elliptical orbits. 2. Explains the varying speed of planets and, so retrograde motion. 3. Relates the movement of one planet to all the others. All that remained was to see these three laws as part of one - one that held all the planets to orbit around the sun. In 1609, Galileo was the first person to use the telescope to observe the heavens. His discoveries included the mountains of the Moon, the moons of Jupiter, and the rings of Saturn. Perhaps most importantly, Galileo discovered that Venus displays crescent phases similar to that of the Moon. Isaac Newton with the theory of gravity and the laws of motion