On the fourth of October in 1957‚ at approximately 2:29 pm‚ the Soviet Union did something unheard of. They launched the first artificial Earth satellite into a low-Earth orbit. This satellite was Sputnik‚ the Russian word for traveler. Although the Soviet Union launched this satellite‚ its impact on the United States was tremendous. For instance‚ the launch of the Russian Satellite‚ Sputnik‚ lead to the creation of NASA. Contributing factors like the U.S.’s continuous strive to come out on top‚
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freedom as reflected in their literature‚ art‚ and education. This cultural movement led into the Scientific Revolution where‚ in lieu of relying solely on the words of ancient and religious sources‚ scientists conceptualized that the best way to gather scientific knowledge was to experience it for oneself in the natural world. Hence‚ the Europeans based their knowledge of the physical universe on scientific discoveries and experiments. Progressing the ideas of these two movements was the Enlightenment
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Science and Capitalism If I were to take I guess‚ I would says that we all have been taught that capitalism drives innovation‚ technology‚ and scientific advancement. The teaching that competition‚ combined with the profit motive‚ pushes science to its limits and gives big corporations incentive to invent new medicines‚ drugs‚ and treatments is very common. We are also told that the free market is the greatest motivator for human advance‚ but in some cases that is not true. Patents‚ profits‚ and
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One of Goodell’s major motivations during his work as a missionary in the Turkish empire were his endeavours in translating the Bible into Armeno-Turkish. The Bible had already been translated into Turkish previously. A Turkish translation existed by 1657‚ however‚ it was incomplete. A more complete translation was made in 1665 by Wojciech Bobowski. Moreover‚ a Turkish Bible was printed for the first time in Paris in 1827‚ and this was the basis for further translation of the Bible by minority groups
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Scientific Revolution: Galileo Galilei The scientific revolution is truly a revolution in that people started to question commonly held beliefs and replace them with new ideas that not only made people rethink the universe they lived in but also their religious beliefs. The early scholars discussed in Chapter 16 of Joshua Cole and Carol Syme’s textbook Western Civilizations did not set out to change people’s religious beliefs‚ rather bring better explanations for these commonly held beliefs. An
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New Thinkers‚ New Ideas The Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries changed the way educated people looked at the world. A new tone of thinking emerged creating a foundation that would later be built on by enlightened thinkers. Controversial views would soon challenge faith-based ideals‚ which in turn would test the power and authority of the church. No longer did people listen to beliefs from the past‚ people looked at new ideas of the future‚ ideas that made mathematical
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*How did Albert Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton earn their titles? Sir Isaac Newton (Father of Classical Physics) Newton was known as a natural philosopher during his life but his theories of motion‚ gravity‚ light‚ etc formed the cornerstone of what would become known as physics. He probably contributed more to the science than any single person before or after him. Newton’s 1687 publication of the Principia is considered to be among the most influential books in the history of science‚ laying
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I feel that both the Protestant Reformation and the Scientific Revolution have had an equal influence on the religious nature of Europe in 1500 to 1800. But I also am convinced that the Scientific Revolution had a longer lasting influence in Europe. The Reformation destroyed the unity of faith and religious organization of the Christian peoples of Europe‚ cut many millions off from the true Catholic Church‚ and robbed them of the greatest portion of the valuable means for the cultivation and maintenance
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most significant and persuasive philosopher ever. The French Enlightenment and the Founding Fathers of the American Revolution drew intensely on his thoughts. He placed a great part of the preparation for the Enlightenment and made focal commitments to the growth of liberalism. He prepared in medicine‚ he was a main promoter of the experimental methods of the Scientific Revolution. In his "Paper Concerning Human Understanding‚" he propelled a hypothesis of the self as a clear page‚ with understanding
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father of modern chemistry‚ was born August 26‚ 1743 in Paris‚ France‚ but he did not pursue his love for science as a career until after he received a bachelor’s degree in law and obtained a license to practice law in 1764. Lavoisier always had a strong interest in the sciences‚ but was encouraged by his father to consider it only a hobby. However‚ in 1764‚ the same year he decided against practicing law‚ his first scientific paper was published‚ and he was elected to the French Academy of Sciences
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