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An 8 page outline of some of the major steps of the scientific revolution which spanned the Renaissance through the eighteenth century. The author explores the work of some of the most noteworthy scientists of all time but also points out that many discoveries can be attributed to novice hobbyists. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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roots in the Renaissance. These roots would rapidly spread through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Numerous scientific and technological advancements which were made in this time period
had tremendous impact not only on the people of that time period but all the way up to the present. From Copernicus to Voltaire, the greatest minds of all
time became occupied with the refinement of scientific knowledge and even the scientific method itself. The first radical departure of science from the
tried and true norms of the period preceding the Rennaissance was the findings of Copernicus. Copernicus, to the consternation of the Church in particular, asserted that it was
the sun around which our planet revolved, not the sun around the earth as was held by the Church (Meeks PG).
Copernicus revelations would be so astonishing that even he himself would be unwilling to publish them until practically his dying day knowing that the uproar they would create would shake
the foundations of the church and the foundations of Aristotelian mechanics which held most of the beliefs of the sixteenth century in place (Meeks PG). With the advent of
the Copernican theory that the sun, not the Earth, was the center of the universe people were torn from their Middle Age intellectual darkness and placed under the glaring lights
of reality. It would be this theory which would revolutionize the way that the world thought. It would tear at the fabric of their very being for it
challenged everything that they had ever believed. Although such findings were radical, however, they only swayed the consciousness of the people as a whole so far.
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