Scientific Revolution
Jamie A 2nd
What was the change?
From 1550 to 1700, Europe experienced a Scientific Revolution when new ideas in physics, astronomy,biology, anatomy changed the way. Europeans viewed the natural world. The reformation & the renascent caused the Scientific Revolution.
Who were the people associated with the changed?
Nicolaus Copernicus
Copernicus's heliocentric theory proposed that the Earth & other planets revolve around the sun, not around Earth.
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler proved Copernicus heliocentric theory and proposed that planets moves in elliptical orbits & do not always travel at the same speed around the sun.
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton discovered and explained the theory of gravity. He also discovered the three laws of motions.
The Heliocentric theory
Kepler's platonic model of the solar system
Isaac Newton's first edition copy of his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
How did the change impact society at the time?
The Scientific Revolution changed the way peoples' minds think. During the Dark Ages, the church disliked the way the scientific revolution made people to care less about church and focus more on a different way to think.
How is that change evidenced in today's modern society?
The Scientific Revolution changed the way people think, since people think differently, they're going to try new things to discover any mysteries around them. Now days, we know copious of things about our universe and know more about Earth, people study the way human mind think and what our body does. All the people associated the change made things that we use today, like the telescope, microscope, the scientific method created by Galileo Galilei and etc.. Those people also discovered the things we learn today.