Do you consider the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment the same time period or separate?

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Items from the Scientific Revolution

Many items from the Scientific Revolution have been useful in the development of the modern day, and many procedures in medicine and chemistry have been improved. The scientific method from Francis Bacon has been useful since it was created. The way of carefully organizing and conducting them to test hypotheses or theories was his way of making science benefit people. Boyle conducted controlled experiments and gave us "Boyle's Law", which describes how gases condense. He learned that the volume of gas varied on the amount of pressure exerted on it and temperature affected that as well. Andreas Vesalius, a professor of surgery, improved on the human anatomy work of Galen, a Greek physician who dissected animals to create his human anatomy chart. Vesalius was able to dissect human bodies for his studies while he worked at the University of Padua. Women contributed their works as well. Margaret Cavendish contributed many books, like "Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy", about how humans were masters of nature through the use of science (Spielvogel). These works and discoveries have proven to be useful in the development of our science today.

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  1. This Information really helped me on a 4.0 ( A.K.A massively affecting my grade ) project. Thank you

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