Scientific Revolution
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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 two varying ideas as to the nature of the origin of this revolution. One school of thought is that the revolution had internal roots, where as the other school feels that it was an external phenomenon. The true reason is a combination of both.
In medieval Europe there was little experimentation or observation. Yet there was a curiosity, because of this curiosity and a strong religious devotion, logic and the bible were linked. The midlevel thinker thus had a distorted conception of truth...