I feel that both the Protestant Reformation and the Scientific Revolution have had an equal influence on the religious nature of Europe in 1500 to 1800. But I also am convinced that the Scientific Revolution had a longer lasting influence in Europe. The Reformation destroyed the unity of faith and religious organization of the Christian peoples of Europe, cut many millions off from the true Catholic Church, and robbed them of the greatest portion of the valuable …
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…e most during the scientific revolution. It was proven that the planets and the moons revolved around the sun in circular orbits. These discoveries were made possible due to new mathematical theories of Copernicus and Kepler. Newton's universal law of gravity was essential to the historic changes in mechanics and the way the motion of the universe was now observed. More people day remember these inventions and discoveries compared to the Protestant Reformation in general.