Patrick The scientific revolution was truly a tremendous turn in history. It had an effect on many aspects of life in Europe. Ideas about the outside natural world were questioned. In short the effect can be summed up in the idea that the perspective of the European as a human changed from being at the center of a very finite universe to being essentially a spec of dust in an infinite universe. Historians though have …
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…historians are in disagreement as to the origin of this desire to experiment, it is likely that both schools of thought are correct in some respect. The desire to learn came from an internal fire of curiosity that had been smoldering trough out the middle ages; It had simply been given extra fuel by the Renaissance. The Outside world of the classics provided much knowledge as a stepping stone for new and original European discoveries.