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Essay / The Revolution in Scientific Thought - 854
The period between 1300 and 1600 was a time of great change in Europe. The Renaissance and many religious reforms took place, along with many arts that transformed people's worldview, inspiring them to ask new questions. While many revolutions were occurring, another was occurring. They called it "the scientific revolution", and it was not just an ordinary revolution, it was unique because it ushered in a diverse new era, one that would permanently change the way we see things in the world physics in which we live. It began with a debate between geocentric and heliocentric theories, later culminating in a scientific field, today known as astronomy. Space research was a broad field in the early days of scientific research; it has allowed us to see beyond the world we live in by examining the stars, moons, planets and galaxies. The reason the geocentric theory began to be questioned was because it did not show clear evidence explaining many movements of the sun, moon, stars, and planets. This idea was brought by Nicolaus Copernicus, and it was he who claimed that the Earth, along with the other planets, revolved around the sun heliocentrically. However, his testimony still did not prove his theory to be true. Until decades after his death, scientists began researching his unpublished book, On the Revolutions of the Celestial Bodies. A century and a half later, another heliocentric believer arrived, a Danish astronomer called Tycho Brahe. Brahe recorded the fascinating movements of the planets and produced tons of data based on his observations. Unfortunately, he did not live long enough to prove his theories correct. It was left to one of his assistants to make mathematical sense of them, and he...... middle of article ...... talked about astronomy, the scientific method and the laws of gravity in which they all accumulate. to the scientific revolution. Four hundred years have passed and you can only imagine how much has been discovered since then and how much more will be discovered in the future! The scientific revolution allows us to broaden the way we see the world and understand how it works. Looking back, we can see everything that came from it, such as medicines, scientific instruments, biology, chemistry, computer engineering, astronauts, chemical formulas and much more! When we look at the world and all the science there is to discover, it all comes down to God's clock and how we use the scientific method to get closer to the answers every day. Work cited Mcnally, Rand. World history: patterns of interaction. Evanston, IL: McDougal Littell, 2009. Print.