Scientific+Revolution+and+Enlightenment


 * 1550-1800 AD - By Adis and Luke**

The Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment was an era that had huge improvements in science, ideas involving philosophiy, influences in art and politics, and conflict in the Western Hemisphere. The Scientific Revolution helped build what is our science today. Some scientists that took part in the revolution includes; Nicholas Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Leonardo da Vinci, and many more. The Enlightenment was filled with philosophies and the discussion of improving the world. Some people who took part in the Enlightenment includes; Mozart, John Locke, and more.

In the Scientific Revolution, scientists started not to think about the church and religious explanations for things, and looked for different explanations. First, Claudius Ptolemy came up with the geocentric theory, where Earth was the center of the universe. It seemed like a legit theory because we were created on Earth by God, then we should be at the center of the universe. But Nicholas Copernicus threw out the geocentric theory and brought in the heliocentric theory that the sun was the center universe, which remained and is what we are tought in schools today. There later came the organizing of chemical elements, the law of gravity, and discoveries on medecine that has proved it's worth in today's society.

The Enlightenment was a growth in philosophy, art, and politics, but the Western Hemisphere had Colonial Empires in Latin America, and the American Revolution in North America during this time as well. The Enlightenment shared personal thoughts of religion and other things such as as the topic of "influences." It also introduced more of the arts; such as music which leads to Mozart, who was a strong influence to musicians still today. The Colonial Empires started off when Portugal went to take Brazil, and Spain made a huge colonial empire throughout Central and South America. This, of course, created conflict because people want land, power, and money, but that also lead to rulers of Latin American Countries of the Old World trying to spread the word of Christian and Catholic Religions.The American Revolution came about because the Americans thought that the British were getting in the way of their liberty due to issues of taxation by the British.

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 * 1) Leonardo da Vinci - A Renaissance Humanist that was called "the most curious man who ever lived" because he had many ideas for machines, human anatomy, and many more things.
 * 2) Galileo Galilei - A scientist that was called the "Father of Modern Science," and discovered the moons of Jupiter, he showed that moons had mountains, and he measured the speed of falling weights to learn more about gravity.
 * 3) Nicholas Copernicus - An astronomer that developed the Heliocentric, sun-centered, theory where the universe revolves around the sun, which was later proved true by Galileo Galilei.
 * 4) Sir Isaac Newton - This man wrote a book called //Principia,// in which he defined the three laws of motion and the universal law of gravy, analyzed light rays, and developed the math, calculus.
 * 5) Antoine Lavisier - A scientist that was the "founder of modern chemistry" because he invented the system of naming chemical elements, he also was beheaded by the Guillotine in 1794 but was conducting an experiment to see how many times he could blink after he was beheaded.
 * 6) John Locke - A seventeenth century Englishman whose ideas were very influencial in the Enlightenment, his ideas suggested that people were changed by their experiences of things happening around them.
 * 7) Claudius Ptolemy - An ancient Greek astronomer that developed the Geocentric, earth-centered, theory where Earth is the center of the universe and the planets revolve around it.
 * 8) Mozart - A musician that was a great musician even as a kid, he influenced and motivated many other musicians, even after his time.
 * 9) Voltaire - A man that is seemed to be the greatest figure of the Enlightenment because he wrote a ton of pamphlets, novels, plays, letters, essays, and histories, he also was known for his thoughts related to religion.
 * 10) Denis Diderot - A very influential person of the Enlightenment because of his 28-volumeEncyclopedia which he said was to "change the general way of thinking."

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