Saturday, November 12, 2016
Two Revolutions of the Mind
A revolution is not always a consideration to describe rebellion by force. Revolutions can be go by amidst turbulent times when noesis and curiosity rise above to encourage questions and action. The term revolution, check to I.B. Cohen, was used to describe authorized changes in Europe in the eighteenth century (Cohen). The scientific Revolution was born step forward of war, depravity and devastation in Europe. Soon by and by came a new era of learning, the eld of Enlightenment, in which using the orders learnt during the scientific Revolution one could resultant their own questions and have door to knowledge. Together, these deuce revolutions formed a new society; in concert they created a new world. The histories of the two movements are intertwined and build on one another. Both movements withal had impacts religion and economy in the old and the modern world.\nThe scientific Revolution was the foundation for the Enlightenment. It was the rear idea and its offsprin g was the Enlightenment. The scientific Revolution took off after Nicolaus Copernicus published his On the Revolutions of the ethereal Spheres. Copernicus proposed that the sun was the center of the universe, not the Earth. This theory contradicted the Roman Catholic Churchs beliefs as well as the contemporary belief of that time. His arguments were based on math and his approach was through the use of the scientific method (Levack 527). The greater population spurned his ideas, but the few who were intrigued, sure his theory and continued to foot race and research to prove Copernicus lay out (Levack 528).\nThere was a pitch in the approach towards light during the revolution. Scientists in the middle ages centre the on the why of the guinea pig what the purpose of the thing in question was. It was changed from why to how. major scientists such as Galileo, Bacon, and nitrogen promoted the methods observations and the study of consequences (Gilbert). The growth of sci...
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