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The Scientific Revolution
"Nature and natures law lay hid in the night. God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light." This quote epitomizes the birth of one of the most crucial periods in history, a time of questioning, under minding, and radical transformation, the Scientific Revolution. The Scientific Revolution had many major impacts on 17th century Europe. One was that it made people question the existence of God, another significant impact was that it disproved Ptolemy and gave people a concept of universal knowledge that the Earth orbited around the Sun. The Scientific Revolution also gave people the concept of gravity and the three laws of motion provided by the scientist Newton.
One way in which the Scientific Revolution impacted European society was that it questioned the Church's "all knowing" authority. Once it was mathematically proven by Galileo that the Earth was not the center of the universe nor closest...
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