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A 4 page discussion of the scientific revolution. Notes that this revolution was indeed a radical departure from the tried and true norms of the period. People simply began to regard the sciences differently. Not only was science the key to the answers, it was the key to happiness. If man could control the material world he could use it to satisfy his own desires and to satisfy and ensure the happiness of the generations which would follow. While great minds like Copernicus and Galileo were trying to make leaps forward, however, the Church was taking measures to keep society constrained to the mindsets that had been in place for generations. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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we now know as the scientific revolution was the result of many diverse societal factors reaching deep into the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The scientific revolution was indeed
a revolution in that it was a timer period in which there was a radical departure from the tried and true norms of the period. People simply began to
regard the sciences differently. Not only was science the key to the answers, it was the key to happiness. If man could control the material world he could
use it to satisfy his own desires and to satisfy and ensure the happiness of the generations which would follow. Numerous scientific and technological advancements which were made in
this time period had tremendous impact not only on the technologies of the time but on practically ever aspect of the peoples lives. From Copernicus to Voltaire, the greatest
minds of all time became occupied with the refinement of scientific knowledge and even the scientific method itself. No one man better represents
the begging of the scientific revolution that 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, 1997). This assertion alone was enough to upend societal thought. Copernicus contentions were so astonishing, in
fact, that even he was 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, 1997). With the advent of the Copernican theory that the sun, not
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