Yujin Jung
World History II
Grade 9
Ms.Antonini
March 21, 2017
How did Science Revolution impact the Age of Enlightenment? Before moving directly onto the topic, let’s say that there are two eggs. One of them was cracked and became a nice dish of scrambled egg for someone’s breakfast, while a chicken inside the another egg hatched out of the shell by itself, and woke up. How do these eggs vary? What have led these 2 eggs to different destinations? The chicken hatched out of the egg by itself met totally new world through its strong power and will to have a life. Will was what decided the entirely different lives of 2 chickens. This story of eggs may sound out of blue and random for the readers who expected a historical essay. Actually eggs, chickens, and the cracking out of the shell spontaneously are all metaphors that communicate historical terms regarding the Age of Enlightenment. Egg shell refers to the old-established tradition that had been lasting for a long time by the church, chickens are Europeans, the will and power of the hatched out chicken represent Scientific Revolution, and cracking out of egg refers to the Age of Enlightenment lastly. The point of the story is that Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment are very closely tied to each other. Scientific Revolution was the actual motive power of Enlightenment. It changed the way Europeans looked at the world by many ways, and this essay would mainly focus on three things, which are spread of scientific methods, invention with new technology, and increase of access to knowledge. Scientific method made people question everything and think based on rationality. Rationality and reasoning are important factors that brought Enlightenment to Europe. Before the development of scientific method by Francis Bacon, Europeans who were uneducated and illiterate completely believed in the idea of the church and absolute monarchs. The spread of Scientific method derived rational thinking through the process of hypothesizing, observation, and experiment. By proving a hypothesis through a real experiment, the old-established tradition that had been regarded as truth were began to be questioned and refused by people. Heliocentric theory postulated by Galileo Galilei was a good example of challenging the church based on scientific method. At that time, earth was believed to be the center of universe with planets orbiting around it. However Italian astronomer, Galileo Galilei observed the universe with his telescope, and found out the fact that the Earth was orbiting around the Sun. Since the heliocentric theory was totally not acceptable to the church in that time, and Galileo was excommunicated due to his revolutionary thought. Even though lots of scientists including Galileo were excommunicated from the church, their movements had historically deep meanings for deriving revolutionary motivations from the public. …show more content…
Scientific method, technology, and popularization of knowledge were the main 3 motivations of enlightened thinking. Even though science may seem unrelated to philosophic and ethnic idea of enlightenment, however it was highly important. All changes were started from asking a bunch of questions. “Why is it like that? Why does this exist? Is it just? How do we prove this?” Questioning and reasoning were not interruption that disrupted the already existing order. Instead, they were potential motive powers that led mankind into more creative and better
World History II
Grade 9
Ms.Antonini
March 21, 2017
How did Science Revolution impact the Age of Enlightenment? Before moving directly onto the topic, let’s say that there are two eggs. One of them was cracked and became a nice dish of scrambled egg for someone’s breakfast, while a chicken inside the another egg hatched out of the shell by itself, and woke up. How do these eggs vary? What have led these 2 eggs to different destinations? The chicken hatched out of the egg by itself met totally new world through its strong power and will to have a life. Will was what decided the entirely different lives of 2 chickens. This story of eggs may sound out of blue and random for the readers who expected a historical essay. Actually eggs, chickens, and the cracking out of the shell spontaneously are all metaphors that communicate historical terms regarding the Age of Enlightenment. Egg shell refers to the old-established tradition that had been lasting for a long time by the church, chickens are Europeans, the will and power of the hatched out chicken represent Scientific Revolution, and cracking out of egg refers to the Age of Enlightenment lastly. The point of the story is that Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment are very closely tied to each other. Scientific Revolution was the actual motive power of Enlightenment. It changed the way Europeans looked at the world by many ways, and this essay would mainly focus on three things, which are spread of scientific methods, invention with new technology, and increase of access to knowledge. Scientific method made people question everything and think based on rationality. Rationality and reasoning are important factors that brought Enlightenment to Europe. Before the development of scientific method by Francis Bacon, Europeans who were uneducated and illiterate completely believed in the idea of the church and absolute monarchs. The spread of Scientific method derived rational thinking through the process of hypothesizing, observation, and experiment. By proving a hypothesis through a real experiment, the old-established tradition that had been regarded as truth were began to be questioned and refused by people. Heliocentric theory postulated by Galileo Galilei was a good example of challenging the church based on scientific method. At that time, earth was believed to be the center of universe with planets orbiting around it. However Italian astronomer, Galileo Galilei observed the universe with his telescope, and found out the fact that the Earth was orbiting around the Sun. Since the heliocentric theory was totally not acceptable to the church in that time, and Galileo was excommunicated due to his revolutionary thought. Even though lots of scientists including Galileo were excommunicated from the church, their movements had historically deep meanings for deriving revolutionary motivations from the public. …show more content…
Scientific method, technology, and popularization of knowledge were the main 3 motivations of enlightened thinking. Even though science may seem unrelated to philosophic and ethnic idea of enlightenment, however it was highly important. All changes were started from asking a bunch of questions. “Why is it like that? Why does this exist? Is it just? How do we prove this?” Questioning and reasoning were not interruption that disrupted the already existing order. Instead, they were potential motive powers that led mankind into more creative and better