History glossary
Scientific Revolution
the early modern transformation in European ideas about nature, observation, mathematics, and experiment.
- Category
- Intellectual movement
- Region
- Europe
- Date range
- sixteenth-seventeenth centuries
What it means
The Scientific Revolution changed how educated Europeans studied nature. Thinkers such as Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Bacon, Descartes, and Newton emphasized observation, mathematics, experiment, and new models of the cosmos, laying foundations for modern science.
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The Scientific Revolution
The Scientific Revolution transformed how humans understand the world, replacing tradition with observation, experimentation and mathematical laws that still shape modern science.
The Renaissance
From Petrarch to printing, from Florence to northern Europe, the Renaissance transformed learning, art, politics, religion, and science while linking medieval inheritance to modern change.
