The Scientific Era brought out the greatest theories, ideas, and experiments that have transformed science itself. Budding new scientists with fresh minds, and a heart for science, wanting to give it a new beginning. A new beginning that would change the processes, the thought, and the experimentation.
The first scientist that lit this spark, was Francis Bacon. He devised a logical procedure for gathering information and testing theories. Francis created the scientific method. This new order of steps was the building blocks that made new scientific discoveries possible.
There were multiple scientists that followed Francis Bacon that achieved accomplishments in math, science, anatomy, and astronomy. Francois Viete put his thoughts towards math and was the first to use letters to represent unknown quantities. He invented trigonometry, a new form of math. However, the theories were what made the largest impact.
Copernicus was the first man in this time frame to study astronomy and enforce a new idea. The heliocentric theory. In the beginning, people believed in the geocentric theory. To the naked eye, the Earth didn’t appear as if it was moving. It looked as if the sun, stars, and planets revolved around the earth, making it the center of the universe. The geocentric theory was supported by the church and the people. When Copernicus introduced heliocentrism, it was unsettling. The church did not approve. If this theory was proven correct, their games and manipulation would come to an end.
Johannes Kepler proved Copernicus correct. He found that the planets and the Earth revolve around the sun and he proved it mathematically. Kepler proved that the planets orbit around the sun was elliptical. In 1615, he completed the first of th...
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...of modern medicine. One of the largest impacts however was on the church.
The church was the largest negative effect of the revolution. New ideas toyed with people’s spiritual beliefs and shattered faith and trust in both God and the church. The world was reset to an idea of logical thinking, not faith or inspiration. It was the loss of a personal, caring God. Growing up with the church and its teaching, than discovering it was all wrong, lead people down different paths. New religions and ideas of God were spread across the world as the Roman Catholic Church slowly began to die out.
Based on the new theories, experiments, and the processes, the Scientific Revolution brought on a positive transformation that changed technology, science, medicine, and astronomy. Thanks to this Era, the world was given a fresh start, a new beginning that made daily life worth living.
Francis Bacon ~ used the scientific method to conduct experiments, he is known as a father of modern science for this.
Scientific discovery brought about as much questioning as it did answers. The Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei invented the improved telescope that gave man the capability to peer into the heavens1. Seeing the universe in this new light caused men to awaken to a new sense of being. Finding that seeing the way our universe was laid out was different than what was originally conceived caused major impact in society. Galileo’s findings caused him to battle with the powerful Catholic Church, a decision that ultimately led to his downfall. Scientific discovery in gravity and the laws
The scientific revolution can be considered one of the biggest turning points in European history. Because of new scientific ideas and theories, a new dawn of thinking and questioning of natural elements had evolved. Scientific revolution thinkers such as Newton, Galileo, and Copernicus all saw nature as unknowable and wanted to separate myths from reality. During the scientific revolution during mid 1500-late 1600s, key figures such as Isaac Newton and Nicolaus Copernicus greatly impacted Europe in terms of astronomical discoveries, scientific methods, and the questioning of God to challenge the church’s teachings.
In 1543 Nicholas Copernicus, a Polish Canon, published “On the Revolution of the Celestial Orbs”. The popular view is that Copernicus discovered that the earth revolves around the sun. The notion is as old as the ancient Greeks however. This work was entrusted by Copernicus to Osiander, a staunch Protestant who though the book would most likely be condemned and, as a result, the book would be condemned. Osiander therefore wrote a preface to the book, in which heliocentrism was presented only as a theory which would account for the movements of the planets more simply than geocentrism did, one that was not meant to be a definitive description of the heavens--something Copernicus did not intend. The preface was unsigned, and everyone took it to be the author’s. That Copernicus believed the helioocentric theory to be a true description of reality went largely unnoticed. In addition to the preface, this was partly because he still made reassuring use of Ptolemy's cycles and epicycles; he also borrowed from Aristotle the notion that the planets must move in circles because that is the only perfect form of motion.
Nicholas Copernicus was the first to question the universal truths and teachings of the church. He devised a theory that the earth along with the other planets revolved around the sun. This theory disagreed with Aristotle and the old teachings that the universe revolved around the earth, and that man was the center of the universe.
First of all, what Copernicus was trying to say about Orbit and the Earth that
Galileo, Kepler, and Newton were among the thinkers responsible for a shift in scientific understanding. Before science in Europe did little without reliance on the church, but these thinkers set the stage for a new scientific pattern that separated the physical from the spiritual and set out to learn the natural laws that govern the physical world. Each of these men, through their varying pursuits, helped Europe to envision a world that was necessarily godless, but could operate automatically under constant natural laws.
Enlightenment thinkers, Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, and Nicolas de Condorcet were influenced by teachings of the Scientific Revolution. Reason and logic were used to dissect what was good and valuable apart from what was tyrannical and unable to be proven from the old teachings of philosophers and religion. It was this process of reason and logic that gave these thinkers the confidence in man’s intelligence and potential to improve that showed up in their writings.
The model that everyone believed in back then was called the geocentric model. They thought that the Earth was the center of the universe because it was basically the “greatest”. Then Galileo discovered that the sun was actually the center, and the Earth moved around it. The people were not very happy when Galileo told them this, because they strongly believed in the Geocentric model. They then had Galileo go to trial to prove his theory. He in fact won the trial and we now believe in the heliocentric model today( Paul Halsall, July 1998). The trial actually said, “ That the Sun is the centre of the universe and doth not move from his place is a proposition absurd and false in philosophy, and formerly heretical; being expressly contrary to Holy Writ: That the Earth is not the centre of the universe nor immovable, but that it moves, even with a diurnal motion” This proves that Galileo did prove his theory, and changed the way we see the solar system
At the time just prior to the revolution, ideas and thoughts had been based strictly around faith and not scientific reasoning. The founders of the revolution took a leap of faith into an unknown realm of science and experimentation. Four of the many brilliant founders of the Scientific Revolution; Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler and Brahe, used previous scientific principles and their own genius to make advances in science that are still being used today. Scientific pamphlets, the telescope, observations of the universe and the creation of ...
In 1513, Nicholas Copernicus, composed a brief theory that stated that the sun is at rest and the earth is in rotation around the sun. In 1543, just days before his death, Copernicus published this theory in On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres. This theory was meant to dissolve the long lived belief in Ptolemyís theory which stated, "The earth was at the center because it was the heaviest of objects(Kagan331)." This was a common belief at that time, which supported the religious beliefs that the earth was the center of the universe and God in the heavens were surrounding the earth. Copernicusís theory was shocking, but he published such a controversial theory without sufficient evidence, it had to be considered invalid.
Amidst many similarities, the rift between ancient and modern science is enormous and has frequently left historians puzzled. Although it is clear to historians that the stagnant science of ancient times developed into the modern scientific pursuit in the 17th century, it is not clear what specifically caused this revolution of scientific thought.
In conclusion, the scientific revolution brought dramatic change in the way people lived their lives, and it certainly influenced eighteenth century free-thinking. The scientific method was comprehensively utilized during the eighteenth century to study human behavior and societies. It enabled scientist and scholars alike to exercise their freedom of rationality so they could come to their own conclusions about religion and humanity as a whole. They could finally do so without having to defer to the dictates of established authorities.
...centred universe, like Aristotle, and Ptolemy posed new questions for Copernicus's successors. Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, and finally Newton would be viewed as the successors to the Copernicus theory, and their contributions would complete the Copernicus revolution. Galileo with his telescope, Kepler with his ellipses, and Newton with his laws of motion and gravity.
Eventually, after all of the bias against the heliocentric model subsided, it was looked at in a new light. The Roman Catholic Church even eventually accepted it. Scientists began to discover that the Sun was and still is at the center of the solar system and that all the planets, including Earth, orbit it. Even though Copernicus had to fight to get his theory published and even though it had a misleading preface, Copernicus’ theory was eventually given the thought and consideration that it deserved. It has helped scientists propose the modern model of the solar system which is incredibly accurate. Copernicus’ theory also forced the Roman Catholic Church to change their view of the solar system in the light of science. These positive changes are still clearly visible today in many of the schools and churches across the globe.