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A 5 page research paper that examines the scientific achievements of the seventeenth century. The writer discusses the significance of this era and how it ushered in a new paradigm for looking at nature and the world. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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This was the century that produced Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton, as well as Rene Descartes, and laid the foundations for the scientific achievements that led ultimately
to the world we know today (Levy 170). These early scientists are generally regarded as "heroes," both in their own lifetimes and today, because the philosophy that they formulated
for regarding the world lies at the heart of "modernity." In other words, a major societal paradigm shift occurred during the seventeenth century because of these men, and it literally
ushered in a new age?an age of hope and promise that was based on the premise that humanity could change its circumstances for the better. There are three assumptions
that lie at the heart of modern science and were all formulated during the seventeenth century by its great scientific philosophers. They are: 1) that the natural world is rationally
structured; 2) that human beings have the ability to gain knowledge of that structure through the application of their powers of reason to information gathered by their senses; and 3)
that humans can and should utilize this knowledge to improve the circumstances of their lives (Olson 18). In regards to the scientific revolution, these assumptions came to predominate Western cultural
thought (Olson 18). Prior to this era, during the medieval period, the proper application of human reason was considered to be contemplating the nature of God and spirituality. However,
in 1620, in his work Novum Organum, Francis Bacon wrote that to advance human knowledge, it was "necessary...to penetrate the more secret and remote parts of nature, in order to
abstract both notions and axioms from things by a more certain...method" (Wilson 39). Taking Bacons lead, the philosophers of this era reasoned that they could rationalize and interpret correlations between
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