I. Introduction A. The scientific revolution was a time when people changed the way they thought about things, this difference started a series of changes that still affect today’s world. The scientific revolution is more appealing when you examine the people who were involved and their achievements: it is also easier to notice how it applies to the world we live in today. II. Fueling the fire of the scientific revolution 1. How the scientific revolution developed During the sixteenth century, people started to question the Catholic Church. People started to do this because of the edacious popes and priests who treasured riches and dynamism more than the teachings of the religion. Pope Leo X immensely supported the selling of indulgences to pay for the construction of St. Peters Church. The sale of indulgences affronted not anyone more than Martin Luther. Martin was an instructor of biblical studies that conceived indulgences were a complete hoax. He believed that the people do not have to pay money for god’s mercy. “Why does not the pope whose wealth is today greater than the wealth of the richest, build the basilica of St. Peter with his own money rather than with the money of the poor believers?” (Martin Luther, Thesis 86) On October thirty-first, 1571 Martin Luther nailed his ninety-five theses to the church’s front door. His 95 theses were then rewritten to other languages and soon diffusing through the country of Germany and beginning the protestant and catholic reformations and a sequence of religious battles. These events caused people to wonder. If the church wasn’t always right, then who or what was? 2. When and where the scientific revolution began, where it diffused and the people involved. The scientific revol... ... middle of paper ... ...volution aided the beginning of the Enlightenment because the people began to comprehend that the things they had been told to believe in can’t be true unless it is proven. The Scientific Revolution caused people to start to question their government. The Scientific Revolution inspired people to inquire everything, to accept nothing unless it was proven, it made people start to think for themselves and not just to believe in what they were told. V. Conclusion The Scientific Revolution was an immense step for the human race. Knowledge was gained about numerous subjects that helped pave the way for modern life. The scientific revolution is more fascinating now that you have taken the time to investigate the people involved and the things that they have concluded. It is now effortless to notice how the Scientific Revolution relates to the world we know today.
He was the man that formed the base of the Protestant Reformation. Luther knew he had to take action on this convictions immediately. So on behalf of the rebellion against indulgences and other Catholic doctrine, Luther created a “ Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences” or more commonly known as “The 95 Theses.” The 95 Theses were a list of topics to discuss and propose the idea of indulgences. Or as some people would say to protest the sale of the indulgences of the Roman Catholic Church. The main seller of these indulgences was a man named John Tetzel who had promised the Christians that by paying they were “instantly” saved from sin. Legend says that on October 31, 1517, Martin Luther’s 95 Theses were nailed onto the doors of the Wittenberg Castle Church. Luther knew that this revolt was not violent, but was only intended to educate
In the late 16th century through the end of the 17th century, France was afflicted by religious wars between Catholics and Protestants. These feuds would originally turn the French monarchy into something irreversible. The power of the nobility in France started to cause a threat to the monarch. The monarchs over the next half-century sided with either the Protestants or the Catholics in order to keep their own political security and the peace in France. Eventually, these wars would come to an end. The Enlightenment grew as an addition of the Scientific Revolution; during the Scientific Revolution, Europeans discarded traditional morals and began using rationale and actuality to explain the world around them. While the Scientific Revolution focused on the physical world, the Enlightenment attempted to explain the purpose of regulation,
Many influential figures utilized their position to provide assistance to the poor. A fifteenth Catholic priest from France urges his congregation to donate to the poor because he wishes to reach to the poverty stricken majority and spread the appeal of Catholicsm (Doc 1). Throughout the fifteenth century the Great Schism occurred in which several men claimed legitimacy as the Pope and
The Scientific revolution in the 16th and 17th centuries changed the way that people views the world. Scientific philosophers such as Galileo and Descartes threw out the old teachings of the church and challenged them with new ways of thinking. These men sought to prove that rational thought could prove the existence of God. They also challenged that it was an understanding of a series of rational thoughts, not faith, would bring understanding of how the world worked. Traditional ways of thinking were ultimately challenged by logical and sensible rationale.
Martin Luther was not fond of the practices the Roman Catholic church of indulgences. Indulgences are a practice where worshippers would pay their priest which granted remission for their sins (“Indulgences."). This practice became increasingly corrupt. In the 95 Theses, Luther, became prominent in the Protestant Reformation due to its humble and academic tone (A&E Television Networks, LLC.). For example, in the second theses he states, “The word cannot be properly understood as referring to the sacrament of penance, i.e. confession and satisfaction, as administered by the clergy.” This means that only god can give salvation, not a priest. He is questioning why we must pay to re...
The practice of selling indulgences became under attack from a monk named Martin Luther in the early 1500’s. Indulgences were used as a means by many church officials to add to their wealth and prestige. By buying an indulgence, one was released for all sin and acceptance into Heaven guaranteed. Luther argued that no one needed to buy admission into Heaven. He believed that people could obtain salvation thru their faith and actions alone. The authority of the Pope was also challenged by Luther believing that religious matters needed to be resolved through the words of the Bible and not an individual’s decision. All of this was set down in Luther’s 95 Thesis that he posted on the Church door in Wittenberg, Germany ("The Reformation Video").
The enlightenment sparked the beginning of the scientific revolution. It was in a time where everyone life’s were based on the church. The enlightenment was focused on observing things from a scientific point of view, the scientific revolution helped shape those thoughts and ideas. Over the course of the seventeenth and the eighteenth century, Europe’s view of the world changed from one of a religious view to a strictly secular view. The advances in science were the mean reason behind the fact that Europe made such a change. Aristotle (348-322 B.C.) had many scientific ideas that had a huge influence on shaping the world as we know it. One of his ideas were that everything in motion had been moved by another object that itself was...
The selling of indulgence troubled Luther, he thought people were ignorant to believe that they didn’t have to repent after they bought an
In 1517, when reformist Martin Luther wrote an indictment of the abuses of the Roman Catholic Church called the 95 Theses, he appealed to many people across Europe. In his indictment he greatly criticized and addressed the selling of indulgences above all. At first, a person would have to do “work of satisfaction” like fasting, prayer, almsgiving, retreats and pilgrimages in return for an indulgence. But when the empire was in need of money to fight off the Ottoman Empire and rebuild St. Peter’s in Rome, the pope allowed indulgences to be sold for money where he would receive half the proceeds and the other half would go to funding. This is when Luther was even more angered by the selling of indulgences since he already believed that salvation could not be obtained by man’s own effort, but more the fact that man would be saved only if God willed it. It was that event that prompted the German monk to post his ideas and beliefs as the 95 Theses and address the abuse of selling indulgences in it.
The Reformation was a decisive period in the history not only for the Catholic Church, but also for the entire world. The causes of this tumultuous point in history did not burst on the scene all at once, but slowly gained momentum like a boil that slowly festers through time before it finally bursts open. The Reformation of the Church was inevitable because of the abuses which the Church was suffering during this period. At the time of the Reformation, a segment of the Church had drifted away from its mission to bring Christ and salvation to the world. Throughout the Middle Ages, the Church had gradually become weaker because of abusive leadership, philosophical heresy, and a renewal of a form of the Pelagian heresy.
The revolution brought about many radical changes and ideas that helped to strengthen it and the scientists that helped to bring it about became significant persons in history. "The emergence of a scientific community is one of the distinguishing marks of the Scientific Revolution."2 It was this form of community that gave a foundation for open thinking and observing throughout the sixteenth century and through twenty-first century. It was the first revolution that had more of a dedication to the ongoing process of science than of a goal to achieve scientific knowledge.3
The Scientific Revolution, perhaps one of the most significant examples of human beingsí relationship with the natural world, changed the way seventeenth and eighteenth century society operated. The power of human knowledge has enabled intellectual, economical, and social advances seen in the modern world. The Scientific Revolution which included the development of scientific attitudes and skepticism of old views on nature and humanity was a slow process that spanned over a two century period. During the Scientific Revolution, scientific knowledge enabled humans to control nature in order to improve society. With leaders such as Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton, and Rene Descartes, the Scientific Revolution proves to be a crucial piece to the puzzle of understanding the effects of humansí interactions with the natural world.
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.
In addition to this, the authority of the Roman Catholic Church, which had always held that the motion of the universe was controlled by God, was now questioned by many. In response, this set the Roman Catholic Church as a natural opponent of the Scientific Revolution. This was because the new information contradicted the Church’s world view not because of opposition to new ideas or scientific exploration itself. Fortunately, the Scientific Revolution happened moderately over approximately a one hundred and fifty year period so society and the Church had time to adjust to the revolutionary new thoughts.
...pted by people of the Late Middle Ages. More importantly, it brought out the idea that the Bible could not be interpreted for science, instead, people were to experiment or observe for themselves. The strongly supported heliocentric theory no refuted the favorable idea of humanity being in the center. The Scientific Revolution revealed the fact that the sun was in the universe, at the same time, it encouraged people to become innovators, thinkers, and experimenters instead of being dependent on theology. The Scientific Revolution was a big step forward for humanity. It showed that everyone was capable of thinking logically. In our society today, people can freely debate, read, and discover for themselves. Without the Scientific Revolution, the modernization of science may have been delayed, and our present ideas of the universe and humanity may have been different.