The Scientific Revolution And Its Impact On The World Today

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The Scientific Revolution was the period from the sixteenth century through the seventeenth century which was the formation of theoretical, and well-established methods to the world. It was a revolution in practice and thought that paved the way to the new world. A lot of ideas like this were proposed by the Church, but they were mostly wrong. Before this revolution, there was no law of gravity. People thought the earth is in the center of the universe and everything was identified according to the four elements, air, fire, earth and water. The Scientific Revolution started by the Polish astronomer and mathematician Copernicus. It changed the idea of the relationship between nature and men. The basis for the Scientific Revolution was the scientific method. The Enlightenment followed by the Scientific Revolution. The scientific method was the way to new science. A lot of scientists and thinkers helped us today with their ideas. The Scientific Revolution made a huge impact to our world today. The Scientific Revolution affected us , back then and now, in many ways; it affected us intellectually, religiously, economically, culturally, politically, and socially. …show more content…

The Church disbelieved the more logical and mathematical method and views proposed by Copernicus, whose discoveries stated that the sun is the center of the universe and that the earth, other planets, and stars revolved around it. Although the Church resisted, his ideas continued and the actions of many scientists and mathematicians who followed him established the beginning for modern world, offered reasonable opinions, explained the theory of motion, discoverd by Isaac Newton, and the law of universal

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