Part one of term paper
The Scientific Revolution was an intellectual revolution occurring in the seventeenth century. It started in Europe and all Western civilization; eventually spreading throughout the rest of the world. The revolution was based on sixteenth century breakthroughs and an interest in the workings of the natural world. This was a time of many f ...

Part two of term paper
... Revolution had three key elements. First, the view of the universe being stable, fit, and finite, with the earth as its center, and that the earth was one of the millions of bodies all subject to the law of nature. Second, methods that emphasized skepticism, rationalism, and rigorous reasoning that were based on facts and mathematical laws, replaced earlier methods for proving beliefs. Such as referring to traditional authorities such as Aristotle, Ptolemy, as well as the church. Third, the gene ...