How would you define and compare the Scientific Revolution to the Enlightenment?
What will be an ideal response?
Starting first and earlier, the Scientific Revolution was born from the diffusion of the ideas renewed in the Renaissance, particularly of Greek and Roman science, philosophy and mathematics. Although a very small audience initially, the Scientific Revolution was a very intimate group of intellectual explorers who set the groundwork for explaining the natural world around them without the dependence on a supernatural explanation. Working off each other's ideas, new forms of science were developed to create specialties, and standards that were acceptable to meet an intellectual standard. By contrast, the Enlightenment was non-science based, but still dependent on rationalism and logic, for explanation of human nature, which gradually turned to the weighty problems of society and politics in the modern era.
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