The Scientific Revolution
...centuries, the most widely influential was an epistemological transformation that we call the "scientific revolution." (Hooker, 1996) The Scientific Revolution was a time of questions. Questions about God, human nature, science and the world beyond where people lived. Scientists during the Scientific Revolution fought with questions about God and the possibilities on how the world was understood. They began to ask dangerous questions and challenged the Church's authority. The thinkers, scientists and philosophers of this period were dedicated to their views of reason and human understanding.
Sir Isaac Newton 1642-1727
Isaac Newton was an English physicist and mathematician. Considered by some to the most influential scientist of all time. It was during the time of the devastating Plague that ripped through Europe that Newton made three of his greatest discoveries. In the study of light and optics, his theory that light is made up of a mixture of colors and that these colors mixed together in light produce the color white was proven during experiments using sunlight and prisms. His study of light and prisms led to his invention of the reflecting contributions to infinitesimal calculus, theory and light, his three laws of motion and law of telescope, producing a clearer picture than previous telescopes. In Newton's studies in mathematics, he paved the way to what is known today as calculus when he proved the binomial theorem, a mathematical formula giving the expansion of powers of sums. His most important discovery was the concept of gravity and his three laws of motion and the idea that all mass exerts a gravitational pull on surrounding objects. With Newton's universal gravitation, he is considered today to be the most original and influential theorist in the history of science and contributed more to the development of science than...
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