Should the Scientific Revolution be described as revolutionary or evolutionary?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
a. Revolutionary: The Scientific Revolution was revolutionary not in terms of the suddenness of change but in the transformations that it engendered.
b. Revolutionary: The Scientific Revolution introduced a new approach to knowledge based on rationalism and empiricism.
c. Revolutionary: The discoveries made during this period shattered existing paradigms and created new ones that defined a completely new understanding of the natural and cosmic order.
d. Evolutionary: The Scientific Revolution is more of an intellectual movement that unfolded over the course of several centuries.
e. Evolutionary: Many of the changes attributed to the Scientific Revolution were still in process when the revolution was believed to have come to an end.
f. Evolutionary: Magic and alchemy still shaped scientific thinking.
g. Evolutionary: Scientific understandings of nature and the cosmos accepted the existence of a divine force.
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