The Scientific Revolution, Cont. By Ta-Nehisi Coates. May 16, 2011. ... I can sketch out some pretty vague, broad answers about the Enlightenment, the age of reason and so forth.

Scientific Revolution. A development which arose in the early sixteenth century with the cosmological discoveries of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543).

For example, we are currently studying the Enlightenment, and our most recent section dealt with the Scientific Revolution. In 90 minutes, I had to talk about Ptolemy, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler ...