Scientific Revolution (jan 1, 1543 – jan 1, 1687)

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The Scientific Revolution was a series of events that marked the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology (including human anatomy) and chemistry transformed the views of society about nature.[1][2][3][4][5][6] The Scientific Revolution took place in Europe starting towards the end of the Renaissance period, with some citing the 1543 publication of Nicolaus Copernicus' De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) as marking its beginning.[7]

The first stage of the Scientific Revolution, the 'Scientific Renaissance', to some degree focused on recovering the knowledge of the ancients, and is generally considered to have ended with the 1632 publication of Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems.[8] Some tie the end of the Scientific Revolution to the 1687 publication of Isaac Newton's Principia,[citation needed] which formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation, thereby completing the synthesis of a new cosmology.[9] The subsequent Age of Enlightenment gave way to early-19th-century 'Age of Reflection'.

In the 18th century, the concept of the a scientific revolution emerged in the work of Jean Sylvain Bailly, who saw a two-stage process of sweeping away the old and establishing the new.[10] Since then, there has been a deal of scholarly debate around a precise definition of the Scientific Revolution and its dates.

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