WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -How is the Scientific Revolution connected to the Enlightenment? The Enlightenment, like the Scientific Revolution, began in Europe. Taking place during the 17th and 18th centuries, this intellectual movement synthesized ideas concerning God, reason, nature, and humanity into a worldview that celebrated reason.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Scientific Revolution led to the creation of new knowledge systems, social hierarchies, and networks of thinkers. It also affected production and distribution.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Enlightenment brought secular thought to Europe and reshaped the ways people understood issues such as liberty, equality, and individual rights. Today those ideas serve as the cornerstone of the world’s strongest democracies.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Scientific Revolution concentrated on understanding the physical world through astronomical and mathematical calculations, or testable knowledge. The Enlightenment focused more on “Spreading of faith in reason and in universal rights and laws” (Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, 535).

Detailed explanation-5: -The Scientific Revolution directly related to the development of the concept of natural law because it helped spark the Enlightenment ("Age of Reason") in which thinkers emphasized the use of reason to uncover “natural” laws that governed human life.