Inductive Reasoning During The Scientific Revolution

Throughout the Middle Ages, most people believed that God was in control of everything. He controlled almost all aspects of life and even how the rulers of different societies acted. Prior to the Scientific Revolution, practices and ideas were passed down and accepted through the church. The way that they reasoned and gathered information was also very different, but what made the Scientific Revolution revolutionary was the shift of accepting ideas and practices though experiments and observed facts. These shifts came in the form of mathematics and sciences during the Scientific Revolution.
When it came to reasoning prior to the Scientific Revolution, people in that society believed in deductive reasoning. Deductive reasoning typically starts

(Find example of inductive reasoning in primary source). The Scientific Revolution made the shift from an observational method of learning to an experimental type of learning. The shift in reasoning starts in the field of astronomy with a man by the name of Nicolaus Copernicus. In our lecture from October 31, we learned that he wanted to replace the old Ptolemaic system of the universe with a heliocentric model which placed the sun in the middle compared to the Earth. People during this time still did not take into consideration this new model because the Ptolemaic model was more consistent with the Old Testament. This new model was not taken into consideration until a man named Galileo Galilei, who is known as the father of observational astronomy, invented the telescope. Galileo was soon to discover satellites revolving around Jupiter, which led to the observation that the planets may not be ordered hierarchically, which disclaims the previous Ptolemaic model which was backed up by the Church which put God in front. The purpose of these new ideas was to show that inductive reasoning was the proper way to think and gain knowledge for the ideas that were being presented. Sir Issac Newton used observation and experiments to define the new Laws of Motion. (Issac Newton 6.6) “gravity acts equally on all objects regardless of their mass, the gravitational pull between Earth and other planets does.” Sir Issac Newton not only challenged Aristotle and his laws of motion but also came up with the idea of empirical research which backs up the idea of inductive reasoning. The Scientific Revolution revolutionized the idea of how people think and learn. It became a new attitude to learn things with proven facts instead of theories based in the