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wide-ranging, or had such a lasting effect, as what we call the "Scientific Revolution." This paper examines the Scientific Revolution and how it laid the foundations of the modern
world with regard to economics, social developments and other policies. Discussion We tend to equate the Scientific Revolution with the great names associated with it: Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler,
Brahe, Newton and the rest. That is, we think of the Scientific Revolution only in terms of the scientific advances that were made at this time, but the real
meaning of the movement is much more profound: "... the Scientific Revolution was, in reality, a series of changes in the structure of European thought itself: systematic doubt, empirical
and sensory verification, the abstraction of human knowledge into separate sciences, and the view that the world functions like a machine" (Hooker, 1996). If we read that sentence carefully,
one thing leaps out: "the world functions like a machine." There is no mention of God or divine guidance here, this is a world based on science.
Since the Roman Catholic church was all-powerful at the time, this way of thinking would be heresy, and indeed many of these thinkers were condemned for daring to seek a
scientific explanation, rather than a divine one, for the way the world works. The changes that came with the Scientific Revolution went beyond science itself and swept into such
fields as "painting, sculpture and architecture"; the people of the 17th and 18th centuries looked at the world very differently from their predecessors (Hooker, 1996). The Scientific Revolution actually had
its roots in antiquity, or rather in the "European re-discovery of Aristotle in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries" (Hooker, 1996). Aristotle "based knowledge on a kind of empiricism: he
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