The Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution constituted what was, perhaps, the most significant period of discovery and growth of the sciences in the whole of history. This period preceded the Enlightenment. The Renaissance and Scientific Revolution were responsible for the introduction of ideas such as a heliocentric solar system and laws of planetary motion. Many cite this era as the period during which modern science truly came to fruition, noting Galileo Galilei as the “father of modern science.” This post will cover the contributions of three highly important scientists from the era of the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution: Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, and Johannes Kepler.
The Scientific Revolution was a set of results that indicated the development of advanced science during the early modern period when progress in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology, and chemistry changed the views of society about nature. Renaissance inspired interest, investigation, discovery, modern day knowledge. During the era of the Scientific Revolution, people started using experiments and mathematics to explain mysteries. New discoveries were made, old beliefs started to be established wrong.
The main way in which the development of the steam locomotive was so important to industrialization is that it allowed for steam to be used in factories that could use the steam power to run engines that could assemble products and create textiles with unprecedented speed.
