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Scientific Revolution
Intellectual and cultural transformation; shaped a new conception of the material world between 1500s to 1700s (Europe); instead of relying on the authority of religion, leading figures believed that knowledge was acquired through rational inquiry based on evidence (product of human minds alone)
Scientific Rev. Scientists
Copernicus (Poland)
Galileo (Italy)
Descartes (France)
Newton (England)
Corporation
collective group of people; treated as a unit (w/ certain rights to regulate and control its own members)
Europe’s legal revolution was based on this term.
“neutral zones of intellectual autonomy”
Universities in Europe; where scholars could pursue their studies with relative freedom.
Madrassas
Islamic universities; based on the teachings of Quran
(very different compared to European universities)
Copernicus
Polish scientist; First to argue (1543) about the idea of a sun-centric system; sparked the S.R.
Famous book: “On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres”
Kepler
German mathematician; showed how planets orbited in a elliptical orbit, not perfectly (nor divine-like)
Galileo
Italian scientist; dev. a better telescope that questioned the cosmos
Famous Books:
The Starry Messenger
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Newton
English scientist; created laws of motion that became the culmination of S.R.
Main core: universal gravitation
Descartes
French philosopher; agreed w the understanding that the universe could be explained through human reason alone.