HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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It challenged ancient ideas with new ways of thinking about society and nature
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The Reformation targeted science specifically
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It valued the traditional power of the Catholic Church
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The Reformation, like the Renaissance, valued popes and kings over individuals
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Protestant Reformation, with its antipathy toward received religious dogma, was another precursor. Perhaps the most important sources of what became the Enlightenment were the complementary rational and empirical methods of discovering truth that were introduced by the scientific revolution.
Detailed explanation-2: -One development that helped lead to the Scientific Revolution was the growth of humanism during the Renaissance. Humanist artists and writers spent much of their time studying the natural world. This interest in the natural world carried forward into the Scientific Revolution.
Detailed explanation-3: -A new view of nature emerged during the Scientific Revolution, replacing the Greek view that had dominated science for almost 2, 000 years. Science became an autonomous discipline, distinct from both philosophy and technology, and it came to be regarded as having utilitarian goals.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Renaissance and Scientific Revolution were responsible for the introduction of ideas such as a heliocentric solar system and laws of planetary motion.