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    Chapter 16 is an introduction to the scientific revolution. Philosophy, astronomy, mechanics, and mathematics are some of the subjects that made the revolution historical. Copernicus is one of the scientists talked about in this chapter. He stated that the Earth moved around the sun just like all the other planets in our solar system. Newton was also a prodigious astronomer, who followed in Copernicus’s footsteps and made a discovery that changed the face of science. Newton published his work on

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    The Scientific Revolution was an unprecedented event that “was revolutionary because it fundamentally challenged [the religious] understanding of the universe,” and sewed the seeds for the Enlightenment. As exemplified by the Scientific Revolution, that which is revolutionary is based upon ideological shifts in society, and requires the upheaval and restructuring of social and political systems. The Age of Enlightenment cultivated an intellectual climate in which individuals were encouraged to observe

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    Philosophical think thanks of the Scientific Revolution Despite of the observational, experimental, mathematical, and mechanical principles used to gather information, Isaac Newton was the greatest contributor to the Scientific Revolution, although there were a few predecessors like Galileo Galilei. Galileo gathered valuable information through observations and experimentation; throughout the Renaissance, society had a broader knowledge base on Newtonian Science, the scientific method, rational thinking

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    only those in the higher class families. Even though they started to educate themselves, the majority had no rights whatsoever in money matters as well as estate. From the 17th century and up to the scientific revolution, women’s rights had consistently been improving. However, during the revolution, the study of the human body brought to attention that the male brain is quite larger than that of a female. This revelation set back the female race back to a limited role, but this time this setback

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    Scientific philanthropy is a movement that began in the late 1800s. The movement was characterized by targeted giving, and using “philanthropic funds” in an efficient way to help solve “large-scale social problems.” Scientific philanthropy also changed the way donations were made. Primarily during the early eighteenth century donations were given directly to an institution, individual, or cause. With the introduction of scientific philanthropy, donations were solicited, usually by someone who was

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    of the Renaissance the Scientific Revolution came about, and through Renaissance ideals theories developed of how the universe was structured from thinkers such as Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo. When the Scientific Revolution was born in the mid 1500’s, scientists started contradicting the theories of Aristotle and Ptolemy and the theory of how planet Earth was the center of the universe, which was an ideal of humanism. Copernicus, a Polish scientist during the revolution, formed a theory that the

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    During the Scientific Revolution, in 1543, scientist had broken out from the past and began to create their own thoughts/ ideas. They spread their newfound ideas around so everyone would know what they discovered. The main purpose of this was to prove that the old ideas were wrong and their ideas were correct. During this time three well known scientists made a big impact on the science world. Those scientists are Galileo, Kepler, and Newton. All of them altered the traditional interpretations of

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    Scientific Revolution The Scientific Revolution, This was an age in which there were many changes in society that helped people to evolve and come up with some brilliant ideas on how to improve modern life. This event took place in the 15th Century, all the way into the 16th Century. Have you ever wondered how it must’ve been like during that age compared to the one we are in now? There has to be a huge difference, and of course there are improved things now, but if it hadn’t been for the Scientific

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    Women in the Scientific Revolution The scientific revolution is generally considered part of the broader intellectual revolution that began with the Italian Renaissance and the rediscovery and translation of the classical writers, particularly Aristotle, sometime during the fourteenth century. It is only in retrospect that one can understand broad movements, such as this, but one can assert with confidence that the scientific revolution resulted from a confluence of several factors, most particularly

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    by the Scientific Revolution. In essence the presentation of and descriptive power of Enlightenment theories and ideas would not have been possible without the strengthened exploratory and explanatory rigor established in the Scientific Revolution. In terms of the PISCET categories discussed through the lectures and the text, the most prevalent threads between the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment is in their intellectual, economic, and political connections. During the Scientific Revolution

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