"16421730" - 1 õppematerjal

Teaduslik revolutsioon

then, that following Galileo's death in 1642 that the greatest advances in science would come from outside Italy in countries like England, Holland and Germany. These were, after all, Protestant countries with a tradition of protest and toleration. But 1642 also signifies something else for it was in that year that the man most responsible for producing modern science was born. That man was Isaac Newton. 16421730 III We can't imagine that the Scientific Revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries took place in a vacuum [ tühjuses, iseenesest ]. That is, we can't assume that modern science simply came to be in a momentary flash of brilliance, nor that Copernicus or Kepler or Galileo just woke up one morning and pronounced their discoveries to a world which became somehow instantaneously different. Past historians have looked at the