The Scientific Revolution was a time of change in beliefs and thoughts during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The movement was a reaction to centuries of scientific stagnation in Europe. Throughout the Middle Ages, scholars were taught what was accepted as truth—information that dated to Ancient Greece and Rome—without question. Theories were not tested. With the dawning of the Italian Renaissance, humanists studied the classics but also began to draw their own conclusions. They... więcej

Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2023. 3p.