Chapter 15

In Chapter 15, it talks about how the Scientific Revolution was an revolutionary and it also becoming a challenge to the universe because of people discovering things that no one could find. The earth was no longer unique or at the obvious center of God's attention. There is an Italian named Galileo that developed an improved telescope in, which he observed sunspots or anything that was moving across the face of the sun. Galileo also discovered the mountains of the moon and Jupiter's moon. His experimental work one the velocity of falling objects. According, to the book some thinker began to talk about the notion of an unlimited universe.  Another person that is important is Sir Isaac Newton. He is an english man who formulated the laws of motion and mechanics. Newton invented calculus and he formulated the concept of inertia and the laws of motion.

The new approach to knowledge was in the human reason and also in the natural laws that were now applied to the human affairs not just to the physical universe. Numbers were growing of people and they believed that it was the long-term outcome of the enlightenment. The enlightenment was another term to as the Age of Reason. It was a philosophical movement that took place primarily in Europe and later in North America during the 17th and 18th century. Enlightenment include the rise of concepts such as reason, liberty, and the scientific method. The enlightenment philosophers were skeptical of religion especially the powerful catholic churches monarchies and hereditary aristocracy. Enlightenment philosophy was influential in ushering in the French and American revolutions and constitutions. Another additional thing is that European enlightenment thinkers shared this belief in the power of knowledge to transform human society. The central theme of the Enlightenment and what made it potentially revolutionary was the idea of the progress. Science and the Enlightenment challenged religion and for some they form religious belief and practice.

Most definitely the modern science was cumulative and self critical in, which in the 19th century and after it was applied to new domains of human inquiry in ways that undermined some of the assumptions of the Enlightenment. Not only did the perspectives of the Enlightenment was challenged not only by romanticism and religious.