The "Scientific Revolution" was a period in history from 1550 to 1700, that exploded with non-traditional ideas about important terms concerning world religions, politics, science, biology, astronomy, ethics, acceptable reasoning for philosophy, and evidence of proof for law, or the different systems mentioned above.
How could humans possibly live in a society without these major thinkers and all their major achievements within the second century? It was not like, us being able to live without: the invention of a dishwasher, iPhone, or the recent philosophy for gangs shooting innocent people in ghettos.
There was Nicholas Copernicus saying the sun is at the center of the solar system, earth rotates on its axis, and earth and planets revolve around sun. Andreas Vesalius was the "Father of Anatomy." Francis Bacon who focused on observation and experiments as the key to modern science. Rene Descartes expressed how important math and logical reasoning in the physical world to give one of my favorite quotes: "I think, therefore I am." Isaac Newton synthesized the concept of universal gravitation, designed calculus, concept of inertia and laws of motion.
All these major thinkers (and more that I did not mention right now) were pioneers of life-changing innovative ideas! Typical of human nature at that time in history to absolutely not readily accept new revolutionary ideas about anything in life easily. When it comes to science, religion, politics, philosophy, even new styles of art, the government and general public in society ( and I emphasize again at that time in history) did not accept new ideas, and/or change easily.
Lorraine Domingo
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