"Before the Scientific Revolution, educated Europeans held a view of the world that derived from Aristotle, perhaps the greatest of the ancient Greek philosophers, and from Ptolemy, a Greco-Egyptian mathematician and astronomer who lived in Alexandria during the second century C.E" (Strayer Pg. 667). The world's way of thinking was basically controlled for centuries- think like me or die was the way. The rich or upper-class controlled what was spread either about religion or factual ideas. The scientific revolution to me was a time when folks were daring to know, to think outside their boxes. Their had to be other ways of doing things?
"What is Enlightenment?" asked the prominent German intellectual Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). "It is man's emergence from self-imposed... inability to use one's own understanding without anther's guidance" (Strayer Pg. 671). To think with one's own mind- without the interruption of another man's input. This helped us grow tremendously as a society!
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