Teaduslik revolutsioon
on. Varem oli ta olnud koolitöö vastu ükskõikne, sest teda huvitas rohkem igasugune käsitöö.
Newtonile omistatakse väljendus: "Kui ma teistest pisut kaugemale nägin, siis sellepärast, et ma hiiglaste
õlgadel seisin." Suurimad nendest hiiglastest olid Descartes, Kepler ja Galilei.
Blaise Pascal
(16231662)
The Scientific Revolution gave the western world the impression that the human mind was progressing
toward some ultimate end. Thanks to the culminating work of Newton, the western intellectual tradition now
included a firm believe in the idea of human progress, that is, that man's history could be identified as the
progressive unfolding of man's capacity for perfectibility. From this point on, man the believer was now joined
by man the knower
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