NATS 1750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Scientific Revolution, Robert Hooke, Micrographia
2 Apr 2016
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There are 2 ways of seeing the world, and you cant see both at the same time. This is what the scientific revolution does to how we see the world. Science is a way of seeing the world, there was also a way of seeing the world before the scientific revolution. This is radically different from the way the world was seen before. You cant view the world in both ways. What we want to do in class is: question the idea of scientific revolution, because scholars have thought that scientific revolution is not what we imagined it was. When we say the scientific revolution we say there is only one, but there could have been more than one. There is a problem with the term scientific revolution itself. It got developed in the middle of the 1800s. what a scientist was in that period is very different from what it is now.
