How did the Scientific Revolution spread?

Question

I need three paragraph ideas, with 3 example topics for each, I just need help knowing what to write about, I can do the actual wrting myself. The essay prompt is "The Scientific revloution transformed the way Europeans percieved the world around them. Discuss this change in detail. How did this way of thinking spread?

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Answer 1

Here are some sites that may help you:

http://www.wsu.edu:8000/~dee/ENLIGHT/SCIREV.HTM
http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/rhatch/pages/03-Sci-Rev/SCI-REV-Home/
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook09.html
http://www.sparknotes.com/history/european/scientificrevolution/
http://www.historyteacher.net/APEuroCourse/WebLinks/WebLinks-ScientificRevolution.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_revolution

Answer 2

Scientific Revolution Ideas

Answer 3

There is no way that the Scientific Revolution could have spread as rapidly as it did without at least the following 2 things:

1. The printing press.
2. Latin as the common language used all over Europe for study, for diplomacy, and for public worship.

Scientific papers in national languages, instead of Latin, only began to be published about 1750, and over the next 100 years the change became complete. The great Carl Friedrich Gauss (d. 1855) was the last major European scientist to publish in Latin.

Answer 4

One way that it spread was by the formation as such bodies as the French Academie and the British Royal Society.

Interestingly, members of these two groups corresponded with one another, even during times of war between their countries.

While the printing press was a great tool (it helped promote literacy), it had become fashionable to be interested in science. People who had made money in the commercial world had sufficient leisure to take up scientific studies as a hobby.

Latin was still known by scholars, but it was by no means used in every church for its religious services--Lutherans, Calvinists, and the Church of England all held their services in the vernacular by this time, as did most other churches of the Protestant theological leaning. I'm sure it was nown to the members of the two scientific groups mentioned at the beginning of this post, and must have facilitated communication between the Britons and the French, although it wasn't unheard of for educated people to be bi- or even trilingual.