The Scientific Revolution created conflicts that developed in societies with the birth of modern science. There were many disputes with modern science. Modern Science was distinctive from Science created previous to this era. “ In the 1500s and 1600s, some startling discoveries radically changed the way Europeans viewed the physical world,” (pg. 54). The Catholic Church did not like how the people were believing what these new scientists were theorizing and not what they believed. This caused many major conflicts. The Church did everything in their power to prove their point and make everyone believe it (Doc 3). The Revolution invented the scientific method, painstaking method used to confirm findings and to prove or disprove a hypothesis.
The Scientific Revolution was a progressive movement that took place in the 15th through the 18th century. Scientist and Philosophers would examined traditionally held values. This is best exemplified in the reshaping of the European view of the universe. Since the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church had followed the Ptolemaic model of the universe. A geocentrism solar system where the Earth is orbited by the various planets in regular and crystalline spheres.
I do not believe that the intention of the scientific revolution was to create war on tradition and religion. However, the scientific revolution consisted of logic and reasons which many viewed as replacing faith and age old beliefs. So I can understand why the scientific revolution might have/had that impression on some people. The scientific revolution helped unearth deists. Deists is defined as 17th and 18th century thinkers who believed that God created the universe and established immutable laws of nature but did not subsequently intervene in the operation of nature or in human affairs.
Eighteenth-century Europe witnessed multiple actions taken upon religion. Revolts against, as well as in support of religion were contrasted simultaneously in a period of time, parallel to one-another. With these factors in motion, multiple individuals were subjected to a change in their lifestyle which, in that time, was greatly influenced by religion. In the later years of the eighteenth-century, the French Revolution arose, and the Roman Catholic Church was greatly challenged. Moreover, Enlightened thinkers greatly criticized religion as it would impede progression and innovation, particularly the sciences and new ideas.
In Steven Shapin’s book, The Scientific Revolution, he described the massive scientific changes that occurred from the late 16th to the early 18th centuries. Shapin utilizes the scientists and their findings to demonstrate the changes that affected Western civilization. He describes his theory of the Scientific Revolution as he proves that the world has always had scientific advances. Steven Shapin states his thesis which influenced the modern world, that the Scientific Revolution did not happen during a single time period through the use of the three essential questions: What was known, How was it known, and What was the Knowledge for.
The Scientific Revolution was a time when people broke free from the church’s control and started exploring nature themselves. Newton’s discovery of gravity played a key role in changing the church’s ideas about the universe, leading to a shift in religious
The Scientific Revolution brought new ideas and methods to the people of the world. Enlightened philosophers sought to learn more about the world and in time learned things about the world and its elements than ever before. There are a lot of things simply taken for granted today that were a huge innovation in the 1500s when the Scientific Revolution began. Countries in Europe destined for growth were a huge beneficiary of this new knowledge available to the world. Activity in the field of science and knowledge in general was on the rise throughout the world.
The Scientific Revolution was in action which started the division between secular and religious beliefs. “In 1613, Kepler was excommunicated because he believed the moon was a solid body. The Lutheran theologians said this contradicted Scripture, where the moon is described as a “lesser light to rule the night.” Since the moon is a “light,” the theologians said, it could not be a solid body.” (Excommunicated For Scientific Beliefs).
Begun in England in the early second half of the 1700s, the Industrial Revolution did not reach America till the late 18th century. This revolution brought about a great many changes in American Society. The surge of new ideas, techniques and technologies that was the Industrial Revolution had a great impact on America, not only economically, as one would typically expect, but also socially, politically, and morally. The bringing of the textile mill to America by Samuel Slater was one event that had a great impact on many aspects of American society.
The Scientific revolution changed the way people thought and their perception of the world,this eventually led to the Enlightenment in europe,after this the ideas of the enlightenment were spread throughout the land surrounding europe. First the revolution sparked the gateway for great scientists like Galileo Galilei and Nicolaus Copernicus. Through hard work and passion these scholars,against their better judgement defied the church and published their findings. Before these visionaries,Europe was blind to see or believe anything other than what the church taught. Then in changing the way people viewed things thus came the enlightenment period in europe, when peoples new views on government were spread far and wide throughout europe without the
During 16th century Europe, the witch craze was at its peak and there were several factors that increased prosecutions of witches at that time. On major contribution to the witch craze was the Protestant reformation (1517-1648). This religious movement had a great impact to European culture and it also made a great impact on how many people could read the bible. Before, only those who were educated could read the bible, but with missionaries spreading the word of the bible, more and more people became aware of the presence of Satan (Groovy Historian, March, 2015). The printing press was a major influence at the time, literature of all kinds of subjects were being printed and making books more available for the common folks.
This was because people were very skeptical of all of the things that they had been hearing from the church. People were curious and wanted the natural laws of the world to be exposed. During the scientific process there were new discoveries and advances in the field of science. In this time period the geocentric model of the universe was rejected. An example of a natural law is Newtons Law of Gravity.
The Scientific Revolution challenged traditional European values to a near-full extent because although the Enlightenment did teach people to use reason and showed them that the Church and its laws are dictatorial and unjust, the philosophes of the Enlightenment were inspired by the works of the Scientific Revolution, more importantly the Scientific Revolution started to challenge the church and its views and the scientists challenged the laws created by the Church. The discoveries made by the scientists of the Revolution challenged the foundations of the religious views revealed by the Church. The Church had answered all life questions, including the fact that God was the most important role in the universe and because of this people did
The Scientific Revolution has revolutionized the world with the inventions made during that time. The items that were made still possess value even today, providing building blocks for things that we make in the present. However, it wasn’t always that way. Science and religion have been at war for the longest time, perhaps reaching its peak during the Scientific Revolution. There were many in the Catholic Church and outside of it, such as other scientists and philosophers, who were in agreement with the Scientific Revolution that was occurring between them, such as John Calvin and Doctor Charleton.
People believed that the progress made in science was an assault on Church and Christianity. Until the movement of Enlightenment, the Bible, the belief in God, and Christianity as well as the institution Church were seen as sacred and unquestionable. However, with the advent of science religious beliefs and the unique position of Church were
The scientists and philosophers of the Scientific Revolution did not set out to change the world, they each studied different subjects in different fields. However their experiments all challenged the traditional, blindly followed views of the world and fostered a new way of thinking that relied on empiricism and skepticism rather than fundamental widely expected truths. This search for knowledge changed our world forever. The scientific revolution challenged and influenced American culture in three ways; it encouraged innovation, questioned religion, created a new lifestyle.