HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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experiences of past civilizations
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experimentation, observations, evidence and reason
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emotions and feelings
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the teachings of the Catholic Church
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Detailed explanation-1: -2 Francis Bacon, Galileo, and Isaac Newton promoted the idea that knowledge should be based on 1. the experiences of past civilizations 2. experimentation and observation 3. emotions and feelings 4.
Detailed explanation-2: -Before the Scientific Revolution, most educated people who studied the world took guidance from the explanations given by authorities like ancient Greek writers and Catholic Church officials. After the Scientific Revolution, educated people placed more importance on what they observed and less on what they were told.
Detailed explanation-3: -The scientific revolution laid the foundations for the Age of Enlightenment, which centered on reason as the primary source of authority and legitimacy, and emphasized the importance of the scientific method.
Detailed explanation-4: -The philosophical underpinnings of the Scientific Revolution were laid out by Francis Bacon, who has been called the father of empiricism. His works established and popularised inductive methodologies for scientific inquiry, often called the Baconian method, or simply the scientific method.