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    Reformation‚ Scientific revolution‚ and Enlightenment the common views on government and religion were bleak. The common perceptions were that the only people that should be educated were the very high nobles and the monks. Despite this start‚ the renaissance set the groundwork for individual thought‚ the reformation stopped placing so much of our resources in the Catholic Church‚ through the scientific revolution our understanding of the modern was created and finally through the Enlightenment our modern

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    Roots of Scientific Revolution The eighteenth century is often referred to as the Enlightenment. The ideas of many individuals combined to create a movement that would not only sweep across Europe‚ but reach as far as the America’s. The main three roots that contributed to the Scientific Revolution are the following: The Muslim Scholars‚ The Renaissance and The Jewish and Christian Scholars .The idea of a world without caste‚ class or institutionalized crudity was what many were striving

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    ------------------------------------------------- The Scientific Revolution (1550-1700) ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- General Summary For the long centuries of the Middle Ages (500-1350 AD) the canon of scientific knowledge had experienced little change‚ and the Catholic Church had preserved acceptance of a system of beliefs based on the teachings of the ancient Greeks and Romans‚ which it had incorporated into religious

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    Any human epoch has massive implications for any human civilization and the French revolution was one such period. It would be unfair to suggest that the revolution was solely a result of economic grievances. It was a period of contrasting morals and customs. French revolution’s impact was not limited to France only. Its effect was felt throughout the continental Europe and still felt today. The revolutionary nature of this social upheaval was down to various ideas and philosophies that were germinating

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    The beginnings of the Scientific Revolution date back to 1543‚ when Copernicus first suggested that the sun was the center of the universe. While this was said to be a radical idea‚ the ideas and philosophies that belonged to Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes were far more radical. Both men are considered to be revolutionaries of the period. Bacon ’s work Novum Organum‚ Latin for "new instrument" was first published in 1620‚ the title was referring to the human mind. The laws of nature can only

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    of all citizens. The scientific movement in the 18th century was a critical part of history‚ as it ushered in some of the most important scientific finds built upon the discoveries of the 16th and 17th centuries‚ such as Bacon’s scientific method and Galileo’s astronomy research. The

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    The relationship between the development of the Enlightenment Period and the Scientific Revolution was that the Scientific Revolution was an aspect of the Enlightenment on a whole. The Scientific Revolution helped in the process of the Enlightenment by bringing new advances in areas such as Nicolas Copernicus and his new theory that would soon discarded the old geocentric theory that placed the Earth at the center of the solar system and replaced it with a heliocentric theory in which the Earth was

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    Scientific Revolution – Documents Packet Primary and secondary documents are the backbone of historical research. Primary sources give us a first hand account of an event‚ while secondary sources give us a broader perspective on an event‚ given time‚ distance and new insight. As students of history‚ we must possess the ability to properly analyze a document in order to understand its value. This packet of documents relating to the “scientific revolution” of the 16th & 17th centuries is designed

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    other common jobs that were thought to be suitable for a woman. However‚ as the Scientific Revolution occurred‚ more and more women began to take interest in studying other things such as chemistry‚ astronomy‚ and medicine. The attitudes and reactions towards the participation of women in these fields of study during the 17th and 18th centuries were both positive and negative; some people were completely against it‚ some men supported it‚ and some women supported their sex by proving themselves in their

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    National Assembly of France‚ which consisted of mostly wealthy bourgeoisies of the third estate. The remaining members of the third estate‚ the peasants and sans-culottes‚ therefore did not have much say in what was being addressed to the public. Enlightenment ideas such as popular sovereignty and civic equality‚ advocated by all three groups of the estate‚ is apparent in the statement. Although this was a step in the right direction for all members of the third estate‚ the bourgeoisies and peasants

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