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World History Project - 1750 to the Present
Course: world history project - 1750 to the present > unit 3.
- BEFORE YOU WATCH: Origins of the Industrial Revolution
- WATCH: Origins of the Industrial Revolution
- READ: Scale of the Industrial Revolution
READ: The Scientific Revolution
- READ: The Industrial Revolution
- BEFORE YOU WATCH: Coal, Steam, and the Industrial Revolution
- WATCH: Coal, Steam, and the Industrial Revolution
- Origins of the Industrial Revolution
First read: preview and skimming for gist
Second read: key ideas and understanding content.
- What is the usual story of the Scientific Revolution?
- How does the author challenge the usual story of the Scientific Revolution?
- Who participated in the Scientific Revolution?
- What were some negative social effects of the Scientific Revolution?
- Does the author think the Scientific Revolution caused the Industrial Revolution?
Third read: evaluating and corroborating
- You just read an article about scale and the Industrial Revolution. In that article, the author questioned whether the Industrial Revolution happened in Britain because of local or global factors. What do you think explains the emergence of the Scientific Revolution in Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? Was this the result of local or global processes?
- Using the networks frame, explain why the Scientific Revolution happened in Europe and how it might have led to the Industrial Revolution.
The Scientific Revolution
Was it revolutionary, was it european, whose revolution, did it cause the industrial revolution.
- The word other can refer to the otherness of marginalize people. Anyone not belonging to the most powerful or privileged class can be a type of “other” due to race, gender, religion, socio-economic status, etc.
- It’s hard to say exactly when people started thinking about race, but it’s definitely not a natural and ancient idea. Of course, people had a sense of others outside their community, who they often looked down upon, but that wasn’t the same as seeing people as different races. For Europeans in the medieval period, humans were sorted into Christians, Jews, and heathens.
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The Scientific Revolution had multiple effects on society. Specifically, the Scientific Revolution paved the road for changes in people’s mindsets, facilitated the economy’s development, and sowed the seed for the shift in political powers. First, the Scientific Revolution offers a platform for a drastic change in people’s mindsets thanks ...
Scientific Revolution, drastic change in scientific thought that took place during the 16th and 17th centuries. A new view of nature emerged during the Scientific Revolution, replacing the Greek view that had dominated science for almost 2,000 years. Science became an autonomous discipline, distinct from both philosophy and technology, and it ...
The Scientific Revolution (1500-1700), which occurred first in Europe before spreading worldwide, witnessed a new approach to knowledge gathering – the scientific method – which utilised new technologies like the telescope to observe, measure, and test things never seen before. Thanks to the development of dedicated institutions, scientists ...
The Scientific Revolution had numerous impacts on society during the time period including advances in optics, mathematics, physics, astronomy, anatomy, biology, and philosophy. As a result of these breakthroughs, highly significant and far-reaching changes were introduced to all aspects of the European culture concerned with the nature of the ...
The Scientific Revolution. By Eman M. Elshaikh. The familiar story of the Scientific Revolution runs from Copernicus to Newton, but the full story extends far beyond Europe, beyond men, and beyond the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The universe doesn't revolve around you.
scientific revolution generally accepted within and beyond the history of science. Kuhn’s concept of scientific revolution is broader than his predecessors’, such as Butterfield’s and Hall’s. ‘Scientific revolution’, for Kuhn, refers to any radical scientific changes in history rather than a particular historical episode.
Age of Enlightenment. The Scientific Revolution was a series of events that marked the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology (including human anatomy) and chemistry transformed the views of society about nature.
Between 1543 and 1700, Europe underwent many changes that forever changed the thoughts and beliefs of society as a result of the scientific revolution. During this time, the creation of many inventions came about and the studies of many people changed the culture of society. Evidence was no longer. 1548 Words.
The Scientific Revolution has always played a prominent part in the historiography of science and religion. Historians typically use the expression 'Scientific Revolution' to refer to that period from the early sixteenth century to the late seventeenth, when something recognizably like modern science coalesced out of previously distinct traditions such as natural philosophy, the mathematical ...