SS2211 Outcome 5.1
The Scientific Revolution: Background
In the last section we looked at how tangible innovations—specific objects and tools—helped change the human experience.
This section explores how new ideas can affect great change.
–Idea here means a new way of thinking
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Rocking your worldview:
List some ideas that you believed to be true as a child but later came to realize were false.
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Consider:
Why might you have been told that idea?
How did you find out it wasn’t accurate?
How did you feel when you found out?
What did you do with that new information?
If you have children, will you tell them the same thing when they’re that age? Why?
What made you accept this new truth/view?
Questioning Evidence Observation Logic Research Experimentation | How many of these tools do you use when presented with a new idea? |
The Scientific Revolution
- Rocked the European world!
- Offered alternative explanations for the natural world
- Weakened the authority and power of the Church
- Ushered in new era of rationalism and empiricism
Rationalism: belief that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge (rather than on religion or emotion response)
Empiricism: belief that all knowledge must be based on what we experience with our senses (rather than on religion or emotion)
Once the Scientific Revolution happened, the human experience changed dramatically.
THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION USHERED IN THE MODERN ERA
Complete the Personal Reflection Questions in the form below
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In order to explore how the Scientific Revolution changed the human experience, we need to look at what life was like before
Historians refer to these periods between the Ancient and Modern Eras by many terms:
- Dark Ages
- Middle Ages
- Medieval Era
- Pre-Modern Era
But the “Dark Ages” were not as dark as they’ve been made out to be. For a long time people judged them harshly by comparing them with the relative advancements ushered in during the periods before (Classical Greece and Rome) and after (The Renaissance).
Check out the short video below and answer the questions as they come up. What would your life be like if you lived in that Pre-Modern Era?