University of Florida Summer History of Science: The Science Revolution

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http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/rhatch/pages/

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Dr. Robert Hatch, University of Florida

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By tradition, the "Scientific Revolution" refers to historical changes in thought & belief, to changes in social & institutional organization, that unfolded in Europe between roughly 1550-1700; beginning with Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543), who asserted a heliocentric (sun-centered) cosmos, it ended with Isaac Newton (1642-1727), who proposed universal laws and a Mechanical Universe.