Topic > The Revolution in Scientific Thinking - 854

The period between 1300 and 1600 was a time of great change in Europe. The Renaissance and many religious reforms occurred, along with many arts, which transformed people's worldview, pushing them to ask themselves new questions. While many revolutions were taking place, another was introduced. They called it “The Scientific Revolution,” and it wasn't just an ordinary revolution, it was unique because it brought a different new era, an era that would permanently change the way we see things in the physical world we live in. It all began with a debate between geocentric and heliocentric theories, eventually leading to a scientific field, now known as Astronomy. Space research was a broad field when scientific research began; it has allowed us to see beyond the world we live in by examining the stars, moons, planets and galaxies. The reason why the geocentric theory began to be questioned was because it showed no clear evidence to explain many movements of the sun, moon, stars and planets. This idea was brought by Nicolaus Copernicus, and it was he who argued that the earth together with the other planets revolved around the sun in a heliocentric way. However, his evidence still did not prove his theory to be true. Until decades after his death, scientists began researching his unpublished book, On the Revolutions of Celestial Bodies. A century and a half later, another heliocentric believer came along, a Danish astronomer called Tycho Brahe. Brahe recorded the fascinating movements of the planets and produced tons of data based on his observations. Unfortunately, he did not live long enough to prove his theories correct. It was left to one of his assistants to make mathematical sense of it, and he... halfway down the paper... was talking about astronomy, the scientific method, and the laws of gravity where they all pile up to the scientific revolution. Four hundred years have passed and you can only imagine how much science has been discovered since then and how much more will be discovered in the future! The scientific revolution allows us to broaden the way we see the world and understand how it works. Looking back we can see how much came of it: medicines, scientific instruments, biology, chemistry, computer engineering, astronauts, chemical formulas and so much more! As we look at the world and all the science there is to discover, it all comes down to God's clock and how we use the scientific method to get closer to the answers every day. Work Cited Mcnally, Rand. History of the world: models of interaction. Evanston, IL: McDougal Littell, 2009. Print.