ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

RESTORATION EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAMA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The Scientific Revolution established substantial progress in existing knowledge, so much in fact, that England in the 17th century saw itself as the most advanced civilization since Ancient Rome. Satirists agreed, but they saw one discipline as never progressing or changing. Which one?
A
Morality
B
Biology
C
Physics
D
Chemistry
E
Anatomy and Physiology
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Scientific revolution. During the 17th century, Europe experienced a series of changes in thought, knowledge and beliefs that affected society, influenced politics and produced a cultural transformation. It was a revolution of the mind, a desire to know how nature worked, to understand the natural laws.

Detailed explanation-2: -What was the Scientific Revolution? The Scientific Revolution (was the) drastic change in scientific thought that took place during the 16th and 17th centuries. A new view of nature emerged during the Scientific Revolution, replacing the Greek view that had dominated science for almost 2, 000 years.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Philosophical Impact of Science. One of the effects of the scientific discoveries of the sixteenth century was a growing belief that the universe itself operated according to regular, predictable, “mechanical” laws that could be described through mathematics.

Detailed explanation-4: -works that challenged the ideas of the ancient thinkers and the church. As these scholars replaced old assumptions with new theories, they launched a change in European thought that historians call the Scientific Revolution. The Scientific Revolution was a new way of thinking about the natural world.

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