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A 7 page research paper that discusses the relationship between the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century and the Enlightenment of the eighteenth and how these eras changed the worldview of Western European society. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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of the preceding century suggests that the Enlightenment grew out of the epistemological transformation that is often referred to as the "scientific revolution" (Hooker, 1999). Charting the perspective of the
intellectual elite from the beginning of the seventeenth century through the end of the eighteenth shows that the perspective of Western Europe changed entirely during this time. Europeans went
from seeing the world in a theocratic and hierarchical manner to favoring a society that was built on rationalism and a worldview which favored secularism over the dominance of the
Church or the governance of an absolute monarch. As with the majority of the so-called social "revolutions" that have occurred throughout human history, the impetus for change actually began
to occur long before the actual era when the "revolution" occurred. The Scientific Revolution, likewise, finds its roots in an earlier era and the invention of the printing press.
Just fifty years after the invention of the first printing press by Gutenberg, there were printing presses operating in at least sixty German cities and in an additional 200 hundreds
cities throughout Europe (Kagan, Ozment and Turner, 1991). Due to this invention, new ideas could be easily disseminated, and it was much more difficult for the Church to control
the flow of information. Prior to the effects of the printing press, it was relatively easy for the Church to suppress books and writing that were considered to be heretical
(Kagan, Ozment and Turner, 1991). Throughout the medieval period, the Catholic Church maintained a virtual monopoly on learning and literacy and reading was kept firmly within the confines of the
Church hierarchy. Until the onset of the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century, European society subscribed to a worldview that focused on the Divine and the Church for all
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