WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A major change in European thought, starting in the mid-1500s, in which the study of the natural world began to be characterized by careful observation and the questioning of accepted beliefs.
A
Enlightenment
B
Geocentric Theory
C
Ptolemy
D
Scientific Revolution
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Define: Scientific Revolution – a major change in European thought, starting in the mid-1500s, in which the study of the natural world began to be characterized by careful observation and the questioning of accepted beliefs.

Detailed explanation-2: -What was the Scientific Revolution? In the mid-1500s, attitudes began to change. Scholars started what is called the Scientific Revolution. It was a new way of thinking about the natural world.

Detailed explanation-3: -The scientific revolution began in Europe toward the end of the Renaissance period, and continued through the late 18th century, influencing the intellectual social movement known as the Enlightenment.

Detailed explanation-4: -What developments during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance contributed to the Scientic Revolution of the seventeenth century? the invention of new instruments and machines, such as the telescope and the microscope, solving Technical problems, serious interest in astrology and alchemy.

Detailed explanation-5: -The scientific method combines Bacon’s ideas of a systematic scientific process and Descartes’s insistence on proof and clear reasoning and the work of other artist. Using the scientific method, many scientist have learned more about the universe in the few hundred years of the Scientific revolution.

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