During the Scientific Revolution, natural philosophers developed a new scientific worldview. A heliocentric model of the universe replaced the geocentric model that was already in place and widely used. Different methods for discovering scientific laws such as Natural rights were developed.Scientist believed in a universe of matter in motion, which was reasoned with mathematics and experiments. Philosophes organized into societies widespread throughout Europe to make the spread of knowledge and ideas easier. Political, religious and social factors heavily impacted the work of scientist in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Governments where funding the sciences and were placing more emphasis on science and the arts. States wanted to show an abundance of wealth by causing the arts and sciences to Flourish (Doc 11). States where establishing academies for letters and sciences, therefore more and more people were learning about science (Doc 11). Louis XIV was a big parton of the sciences, he established the French Royal Academy and he showed pride in supporting the sciences (Doc 10) Science and Politics were happy with each supporting each other. Because of this support, provided by the …show more content…
During this time women were viewed as less than men, anything that women would do would be overlooked. Margaret Cavendish wrote, “ For though the muses, graces, and sciences, are all of the female gender, ...they would turn all from females into males, so great is grown the self-conceit of the masculine and the disregard of the female sex.” (Doc 9). Male scientist were considered to be more important and would be considered correct, contrary women who were educated and conducted scientific experiments would be disregarded along with their work.Henry Oldenbury further proves this when he says that, “ Friendship among men is a great aid to the investigation and elucidation of the truth.”(doc