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 The Scientific Revolution

 Before the scientific revolution peoples __idea__ on world views were limited to that discovered in medieval Greece. The ideas from Aristotle and early Greek astronomers were respected as correct until the beginning of the scientific revolution, which was sparked by the protestant reformation and European renaissance period. The term ‘scientific revolution’ refers to the period of Copernicus and Newton. This era made people think differently towards politics; people started to question astronomy and questioned the idea "that the universe and everything in it __work__ according to laws of nature". The idea that the laws of nature are discoverable by means of reason and through experimenting, ignited a world-wide crave for knowledge.  Nicholas Copernicus came out with the heliocentric theory in the 16th century. He was the first to question and prove the ideas that had been so long accepted, such as Aristotle’s idea of the Earth being the center of the universe. Copernicus argued that it was the sun that was the center of the universe. His ideas made the church question him and it wasn’t till the mid-17th century when the theory was accepted. More ideas of the world were being formed from people like Tycho Brahe, who developed the __solar__ system, and Galileo, who experimented with the motion of objects. Scientific method, Newton’s laws, and gravity were all things discovered as the scientific revolution expanded and flourished across the world. Isaac Newton, Galileo, and Copernicus are just a few that contributed to the advances in sciences. Sir Isaac Newton published a book in 1687 called Principia Mathematica which showed that the universe responded to forces which explained why the earth orbits the sun. Galileo publicized Copernicus’s discoveries while adding his own findings about the laws of gravity and planetary motion. The scientific revolution had a big impact on education and religious beliefs. The scientific revolution gave __the west__ a new identity with Christianity, capitalism, centralized states, large standing armies, and different approaches to science. It also paved the way to the Enlightment period.[|scientest started to invent instruments to do experiments]

[|During this time period scientest's discovered how the planets were arranged]

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