Scientific Revolution

During the 16th and 17th century, a drastic change in scientific thought took place, a scientific revolution, where a new view of nature emerged replacing the Greek viewthat thad dominated science for almost 2,000 years. The scientific revolution is the resurrection of modern-day science which emerges in the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology that includes human anatomy, and chemistry transformed societal views about nature.

Though scientific revolution is complicated and a twisted term upon whose specific periods and actors has started, which nobody agrees upon, the publication in 1543 of Nicolaus Copernicus‘s De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) is often cited as marking of its beginning. Other scientists and historians with their proofs of various events have managed to create their version of this revolution. In the Italy in its early years of the 17th century, where scientific societies begin to spring up, two great national scientific societies which is the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, created by Royal Charter in 1662, and the Académie des Sciences of Paris, formed in 1666 was said to mark the zenith of the Scientific Revolution.

The Start of Scientific Revolution

In the years 1473 - 1543, Nicholas Copernicus who asserted a heliocentric (sun-centered) cosmos, started the "Scientific Revolution" and was ended by Isaac Newton in 1642 - 1727, who proposed universal laws and a Mechanical Universe. This was roughlyunfolded in Europe between 1550 to1700 which refers to historical changes in thought & belief, to changes in social & institutional organization.

The relevance of Scientific Revolution to the society

Science itself and its Scientific Revolution since then has been criticized by many for being unclear and undefinable, making its origin and nature hard to understand. Being still ill-defined to everyone, its significance has been a challenged to learn by the society in an endless expanse of space.

The Scientific Revolution has made the previous existing knowledge became a functional reality and is almost inconceivable. Fundamental transformation in scientific ideas across mathematics, physics, astronomy, and biology in institutions supporting the scientific investigation and in the more widely held picture of the universe was shown in this period. This revolution emphasized systematic experimentation as the most valid research method and led to the establishment of several modern sciences, resulted to mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology, and chemistry developments which transformed the views of society about nature.

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