Before The Scientific Revolution

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Before the Scientific Revolution, all science came from the Greeks and Romans or the Bible, the Earth was believed to be the center of the universe, and everything was based on the assumptions or observations. After the Renaissance, scientists started to design new technology, they started to do experiments and they also observed the solar system more often. Although most scientific discoveries were against the Catholic church, they changed European attitudes about nature and religion, because of advances in astronomy and science, the human body, and reason.
There have been multiple scientists and philosophers that have influenced people's ideas and thinking, and a few of them are Ptolemy, Nicolaus Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, Sir Isaac Newton, Maria Winkelmann, Robert Boyle and Antoine Lavoisier. Ptolemy was one of the first scientists to observe our solar system and what he discovered led to multiple other discoveries. Ptolemy had the idea that the Earth was the center of the universe, but Nicolaus Copernicus, an astronomer, realized that his …show more content…

The people that truly impacted the thought of reason, were Margaret Cavendish, Francis Bacon, and Rene Descartes. Margaret Cavendish wrote books on science and believed that humans were the master of nature, which is what we now believe too. Francis Bacon came up with inductive reasoning which means that scientists should not rely on the past for information. Bacon also invented the scientific method and that tremendously impacted the science world. Before the scientific method, scientists did not come up with a hypothesis or even record data, now, we use the scientific method for every situation whether it actually involves science or not. Rene Descartes had the idea of separation of mind and matter and rationalism which means reason is the chief source of

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