THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION
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A period when scientists embraced the teachings of the Church
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The time when the Catholic Church empathized most with scientists
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period when scientists began to question the old teachings of the Church
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Scientific property invented by astrophysicists to explain the rotation of the Earth
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Scientific Revolution was characterized by an emphasis on abstract reasoning, quantitative thought, an understanding of how nature works, the view of nature as a machine, and the development of an experimental scientific method.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Scientific Revolution refers to a period of time roughly from 1500 to 1700 which witnessed fundamental transformations in people’s attitudes towards the natural world.
Detailed explanation-3: -Scholars questioned whether the Earth or Sun was at the center of the solar system, why things fall down instead of up, how the human body works and many other topics in astronomy, anatomy, mathematics, biology, chemistry and physics.
Detailed explanation-4: -By removing religion from the equation, science became more based in fact and quantitative reasoning. This shift opened science up to so many scientific discoveries about the natural world. Without religion holding it back, scientific knowledge about the natural world knew no bounds.