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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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    Scientific Revolution” The Scientific Revolution began in 1543 when Nicolaus Copernicus published his book De reloutionibus erbium colestium also known as On The Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres. In this book he wrote about his new theory which broke the old Ptolemaic theory. Copernicus argued that the sun does not revolve around the Earth like the Ptolemaic theory said. He said that the Earth revolves around the Sun and the Sun is the center of the universe. Even though this theory went better

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    Continuity Over Time- Scientific Revolution In the time from the 1300s to the 1800s‚ ideology‚ scientific knowledge‚ and religious understanding changed from superstitious ideas to rational and factually supported theories while views of religion stayed the same. Throughout scientific history‚ religion has played an integral role. During ancient times‚ changes in weather and sicknesses were thought to be caused by the moods of the gods. In the 1300s the scientific revolution began in Europe‚ changing

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    Kuhn’s central proposition in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is that science is not a body of knowledge that grows through “steady‚ cumulative acquisition of knowledge but a series of peaceful interludes punctuated by intellectually violent revolutions”. He described the period of crisis as the tradition-shattering complements to the tradition-bound activity of normal science.” The interlude of revolution replaces the one conceptual world view by another. Kuhn challenged the dominant view

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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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    When looking at how science of the early modern period provided foundations for‚ and gave rise to modern science‚ many historians turn to the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century. However‚ a major problem with many writings about historical science is that they have a tendency to divide historical figures into ’good guys’ fighting for truth‚ and ’bad guys’ who opposed these truths as a result of ignorance or bias. This kind of writing is known as Whiggish histories of science. Whig history

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    Annotated Bibliography Campbell‚ Josephine. "Scientific Revolution." Salem Press Encyclopedia‚ January. EBSCOhost‚ search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=t6o&AN=98402197. This source mentions the work of Nicolaus Copernicus‚ Rene Descartes‚ Galileo Galilei‚ Johannes Kepler‚ Tycho Brahe‚ and Sir Isaac Newton. These individuals were very important during the Scientific Revolution and they made numerous scientific discoveries. In my essay this information will be used in my three body paragraphs

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    optics‚ physics‚ and chemistry were created with a definite advancement in the mathematics and philosophy. The revolution was mainly caused by the necessity for more knowledge and learning. The rediscovery of ancient yet highly developed mathematics from the Babylonians‚ Greeks‚ and Egyptians during the Renaissance only added fuel to the spark of interest. The final cause of the revolution was the Age of Exploration which required inventors and physicist to create clocks and watches for sailors to

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    and Kaplan‚ “though the Scientific Revolution spread over two centuries and encompassed many different scientific and cultural elements‚ four main themes were important: Nature was a machine‚ instruments could quantify and measure phenomena‚ science had practical value‚ and active experimentation could prove theory better than passive observation” (Bowles and Kaplan‚ 2012‚ pg. 1). The 18th century was a time that involved the Scientific Revolution. The Scientific Revolution also involved the 16th

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    Lecture 2. THE REFORMATION Recap: • Political organisation: and development of Renaissance monarchies‚ move towards centralised orgnans of administration‚ expanded bureaucracies‚ use of media to burnish image of rulers • Renaissance: individualism‚ man as autonomous moral agent‚ capacity to do good or evil • Society: large percentage‚ subsitance existance. Much more space for the divine than today • History as relationship with the past: the process of our own interaction with the pas as

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