Essay - The Scientific Revolution Was the Period When Man's Intellect Explored...

The Scientific Revolution was the period when man's intellect explored the interests of science, reasoning, and truth. It was the time when man, not satisfied with ***** assumptions about things he was used, ***** scientific methods ***** theories to determine the truth about ***** based on scientific way of thinking. The emphasis of this intellectual change ***** on natural *****s of the earth such as astronomy, physics, zoology, geology, mathematics, and botany. The period of the Renaissance's desire to produce reality from art led to ***** and scientific ***** (Sedivy, D. HRHS). This intellectual shift appealed to the middle and upper classes of society. Two of ***** famous contributors in the ***** Revolution were Isaac Newton and Galileo. Isaac ***** formulated the law ***** gravity, while ***** developed ***** first telescope. Rene Descartes was a*****her contributor of ***** period of *****tellectual *****. He formulated mathematical theories that provide explanation to the existence ***** the universe.

The Enlightenment

***** Enlightenment was a period in which most of ***** ideas ***** inspired by the intellect and reasoning of ***** Scientific Revolution. If Scientific Revolution centers its subject ***** the development of the earth ***** humanity, the Enlightenment focused ***** attention on the potentials of reasoning ***** humanity in ***** religion is one of the foundation of thoughts. It ***** ***** time when philosophy appealed to the *****tellect ***** many ***** as the humanitarians, liberalists, and rationalists. Voltaire was one of ***** ***** icons of the Enlightenment. His criticism on the Catholic Church awakened the mind of its believers. Montesquie, another icon of Enlightenment, shared ***** on politics. He argued that the power of the state should be divided evenly am*****g ***** executive (king), the legislature (parliament), and ***** judiciary (courts) (The Scientific ***** and Enlightenment, AHS.cqu.edu.au).

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