... to them by leading organizations. These innovative views of the world inspired the dawn of an intellectual movement in the eighteenth century known as the Enlightenment. Together, the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment led to an ideal compilation of modernized beliefs that stormed across the world capturing the attention of many and eternally evolving the world's perception of human ... existence. As the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment illuminated the world with a constant craving to uncover the unexplained curiosities that lurk beyond what is already known, a large mas...

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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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