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

My children and I were going over the Scientific Revolution that happened during the Renaissance in Europe: science as defined by observation and experimentation instead of the Greek-inspired ...

"Here are my two Copernicus/scientific revolution homages. I teach science at a public school in eastern MA. It’s nice to see the size of the subculture of science geeks that are also tattoo geeks." ...

In order for the mathematisation of nature, that many historians regard as the core of the scientific revolution, to be consummated it became necessary in the 16th and 17th centuries to reform the ...

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