mytetz › The Scientific Revolution

The Scientific Revolution

The Scientific Revolution was a period from roughly the 1500s to 1700s when thinkers like Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton changed how people understood nature, moving away from relying on ancient authorities and religious tradition toward observation and experiment. Central to this shift was the empirical method, meaning knowledge built from carefully testing ideas against real-world evidence rather than just reasoning or old texts. This new approach reshaped astronomy, physics, and biology, laying the groundwork for modern science.