The Scientific Revolution

The scientific revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries transformed the way Europeans viewed the natural world. Through the discoveries of men such as Copernicus and Newton, the world of thought and deliberation was for the first time accessible to all people. As a consequence of this, mankind now wanted evidence and an explanation for occurrences and ideas previously taken for granted. This era brought on not only mathematical, scientific, and technical discoveries, but also challenged certain conventional establishments. This new intellectual and investigative awareness brought on a new knowledge of man and society, and through this knowledge, threatened conventional institutions such as old traditional beliefs, religion, the legal system, and historical sciences.
As a result of this age, the world became a more understandable and logical place. Thus, there was no room left for conventional myths which were spun from the ignorance of earlier times. Formerly thought to be unfat...