Preceding The Scientific Revolution
Scientific Revolution Preceding the Enlightenment was a “scientific revolution”. In the seventeenth century, a group of scientists set the Western world on a new path known as the Scientific Revolution, which gave Europeans a new way of viewing the universe and their place in it. In this essay I will discuss the appropriateness of this label and also some of the major figures participating in it. I will also explain how the increased understanding of the physical world that came from “revolution” lead people to reexamine mans social and political worlds. The Scientific Revolution ultimately challenged conceptions and beliefs about the nature of the external world that had become dominant by the Late Middle Ages. While only a small number