Scientific_Revoulution

Scientific Revoulution During the seventeenth century Europe was in turmoil, the Scientific Revolution coupled with the Enlightenment caused a great stir, challenging authority and tradition. Over the course of the seventeenth century, scientific method changed and evolved into a more complex and involved process. The scientific method defied the tradition of medieval science of logic and physical sight by using experimentation as a basis for knowledge. The scientific method began with the new ideology and attitude toward once “proven” facts. Since the new view was that ancient knowledge could be wrong, scientists began wanting proof, physical proof of things, not just a logical view of the world. Take Francesco Redi’s experiment with meat, it was thought that flies originate from decaying meat since they are always seen hovering around it, Redi did not believe that spontaneous generation could happen, so he tested it. Redi tested his theory by placing out four tightly sealed flasks with meat in them and four with the same meat but open mouthed, soon the open bottles were infested with fly larva, but the sealed ones were not. This proved his point indisputably using scientific method. Now, lets examine what Copernicus did at the beginning of the seventeenth scientific, method, seventeenth, century, authority, world, thought, now, meat, around, about, wrong, prove, physical, knowledge, copernicus, church, way, view, using, tradition, toward, thinking, things, tested, sun, started, something, someone, society, since, sealed, redi, rather