The Scientific Revolution
By Joe Anthony Obboye (1st Period)
What was the change?
- The Scientific Revolution made people change their ways about the physical world around them. Also, the scientific revolution was know for the enlightenment. It was about how people changed their ways about living as political and social scholars that questioned the works of the government while leaving their traditional ways.
Who were the people associated with the change?
Isaac Newton 1642-1727
An English physicist who is probably one of the most influential scientists of all time, and was the main key of the scientific revolution.
Galileo Galilei 1564-1642
An Italian physicist who had a major role in the scientific revolution. He was also a mathematician, an astronomer and a philosopher during his period.
Nicolaus Copernicus 1473-1543
He was a Renaissance Mathematician who formed the heliocentric model which included the sun being in the center of the universe rather than the Earth.
How did the change impact the society at the time?
The change Help the people stimulate their senses of individualism and their beliefs in having equal rights.
1st Impact: Astronomy
Astronomy made people think that the sun instead of the earth was in the center of the universe. Most Europeans followed the cosmology theory from the famous astronomer Ptolemy, in which believed that the earth rather than the sun was in the center of the universe. The first person to challenge Ptolemy's cosmology was from Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), who declared that in the center of the universe was the sun.
2nd Impact: Physics
One of the most scientific contributions were for Galileo's field of physics. He made laws involving objects in motion. Also, he Passed the theory of inertia, stating that objects in motion stay in motion, object at rest, stay at rest until acted upon by a opposite force.
How is it that change evident in today's modern society?
In our time now, the scientific revolution still gave us many qualities For example, advanced technology and better theories. Also, it brought better ideas of how we learn about the natural world.