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Scientific Revolution

Meaning in history, with examples

nounCommon term

In history, Scientific Revolution means: A name for major changes in European approaches to nature, observation and mathematical explanation during the early modern period.

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How it is used

Use as a debated historical grouping, not a claim that knowledge changed everywhere at once.

Example sentences

  1. The lecture on the Scientific Revolution compared astronomical models and observing instruments.

    Ideas and instruments both contribute to the historical transformation.

  2. The seminar questioned which practices the Scientific Revolution narrative leaves out.

    The term also names a framework whose selection can be debated.

Common collocations

  • the Scientific Revolution
  • Scientific Revolution narrative
  • early modernRelating to the period of roughly 1500 to 1800, between the Middle Ages and the modern age, marked by printing, global exploration, new states and early capitalism.
  • EnlightenmentThe European intellectual movement of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that stressed reason, science, individual rights and criticism of traditional authority.

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