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I consider the scientific revolution one of my favorite subject of history. There is so much interesting stuff there. On a time line it is an explosion of knowlege and thinking. It is when people really begin to think outside the box. and I think that most of the thinking is incredible even by todays standards. And the scientific revolution surrounds even today in our everyday lives.

One of the aspects of the Scientific Revolution that amazes me the most is that we call it a revolution but those that started had no idea that it was going to have such far reaching ramifications. I also think that their motives make the revolution equally interesting as they were looking only to glorify God, and today science and God are more considered opposing forces.

It is worth noting that the phrase "scientific revolution" appears only after the French Revolution (well after, actually). Among the multitude of effects of the French Revolution was to cause people to consider revolutions as being historically significant. After the Communist Revolution in 1917, historians became downright revolution-happy and we get the Military Revolution, the Roman Revolution, and so on and so on. If we weren't seeing revolutions, we were seeing renaissances. I think we're pretty well over that, now, and are on to other fads.

Revolution is the good term for that period of time though. Even though there are no set dates when when it began it changed everything: people began to analyze things from different perspectives, they looked for empirical evidence, separate sciences started developing, systematic doubt and view that world functions like a machine emerged. "These changes greatly changed the human experience of every other aspect of life, from individual life to the life of the group. This modification in world view can also be charted in painting, sculpture and architecture; you can see that people of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are looking at the world very differently".
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ENLIGHT/SCIREV.HTM