What is Scientific revolution?
[[File:PeuerbachSuperioribus2.png|thumb|right|250px|Ptolemaic model of the spheres for Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. [[Georg von Peuerbach]], ''Theoricae novae planetarium'', 1474.]] The '''scientific revolution''' was a time (1550{{ndash}}1700) after the [[Middle Ages]] and the [[Renaissance]] when many discoveries were made. During this time, new ideas and discoveries fundamentally changed the way people thought. They started what is called [[science]] today. Better printing presses after [[Johannes Gutenberg|Gutenberg]]'s time caused a great rise in [[publishing]]. This period roughly lasted from the 16th to the 18th century. [[Galileo Galilei]] invented [[kinematics]] and disproved [[Aristotle]]'s old theory of gravity. One of his students said he dropped two balls of iron (one weighing one pound, the other a hundred) off the leaning tower of [[Pisa]]. The objects fell at the same speed which brought about new methods of thinking. In 1542, [[Nicolaus Copernicus]] published his work ''On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres'', in which he said that not the Earth, but the [[Sun]] was at the center of the universe. This theory is known as [[Heliocentrism]] today. In the same year, [[Andreas Vesalius]] published his work ''On the Structure of the Human Body''. This book is about the [[anatomy]] of the human body. The philosopher [[Alexandre Koyré]] (1892{{ndash}}1964) first used the term 'scientific revolution' for this time period. == Related page == *[[Industrial Revolution]] *[[Paradigm shift]] {{-}} {{hist-stub}} {{sci-stub}} [[Category:History of science]]