To see how the Scientific Revolution forced the world broaden its views as well as force people to look beyond the accepted social and institutional views, we can look at two figures ... of the sun to develop his hypothesis of a sun-based universe. However, in departing from the Ptolemaic system, and an earth-center universe, he questioned the current scientific institution, which was not very open to anything that was not currently the status quo. This was not however the only institution that would be displeased with a change ... the fact that Copernicus's system was correct and should be...

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