The Scientific Revolution that took place during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is attributed to some of the greatest scientific minds of all time which include Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Keplar, Galileo Galilei, and Sir Isaac Newton. Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban, an English philosopher, scientist, statesman, and author, served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. He demanded that scientific experiments must be based on observation and inductive reasoning, hence, the birth of what is still known and used today as the scientific method. Rene Descartes, a French philosopher and mathematician, is known for implementing rationalism and deductive reasoning in the formation of theories …show more content…
People of the time gradually became more scientifically literate and held more reasonable understandings of how the world worked based on science rather than on faith alone. Prior to the Scientific Revolution people viewed nature with a high spiritual value. The scientists believed that something viewed with such high spirituality could not be observed and measured objectively. However, after a few began to persist in their studies on nature and publish their findings and explanations, people began to realize that they can view nature as both a product of God and as something independent of God that could be studied and even controlled. These scientists and interested people soon came to the conclusion that with all the new discoveries and knowledge of the world, which was different from their previous understandings, the scientific approach of observing, measuring, and objectively studying nature would prove to be more efficient. The Scientific Revolution would then lead to the intellectual movement known as The Enlightenment in the eighteenth