Before there was a real scientific revolution, mankind has already made important discoveries that laid the foundation for the great progress.People had already used firearms and gunpowder for the showdown, on ships crossing the seas and oceans in search of new land.One of the most important inventions - the printing press - has made it possible to preserve the available information, not allowing people to repeat and mark time.The knowledge grew, the relationship between the country and the society increased.And all of this has always contributed to the commission of such magic for human civilization as the first scientific revolution.
Stories know how now resists anything new, future-oriented.So, to say that in the Middle Ages science walked by leaps and bounds, it is not necessary.All technical achievements were only practical, applied nature, and more innovative ideas and people to express them, were subjected to terrible persecution.The worst thing that did not take the time cosmopolitans, it questioned the validity of existing postulates that caused the scientific revolution of the 17th century.Take the point of view of the universe, which is considered the center of the Earth.The teachings of the Fall, heaven and hell are a vital necessity for the church leaders at the time that the medieval world ruled by fear and persecution.But an alternative view of Nicolaus Copernicus that all existing planets, including Earth, revolve around the sun, in the middle of the 16th century resulted in a society in a state of shock.The scientists of the time were also not brave to the point of their lives to expose the stake.And so, perhaps, a scientific treatise Copernicus saw the light after the death of its author.
Yet, whatever said and done, it is the teaching of the great astronomer was the first step to ensure that the first scientific revolution was accomplished.The picture of the world, is still recognized by the strict and unquestioning, collapsed in front of the astonished society.A follower of the Copernican astronomer Brahe improved and reiterated their discoveries correct layout of large celestial bodies in the system of the solar galaxy, their distance from each other.Thus was the first catalog of the stars.
Further, the scientific revolution of the 17th century continued the magnificent works of Galileo Galilei.In his possession was already a telescope made in the Netherlands, which he successfully restructured and improved and was able to see sunspots and craters on the Moon, the satellites of Jupiter discovered and described the phases of Venus.And the Church is now really scared and sounded the alarm.The famous scientist on pain of death was sentenced to life under house arrest and was forced to admit all their findings erroneous.
However, scientific revolution already being steered wheels of history.Books of Galileo and Copernicus's writings have been translated into European languages and spread to neighboring countries, with Rome.This resulted in the discovery of Kepler's elliptical shape of the orbits of the planets.Later Rudolphine Tables were made, which made it possible to mathematically precise calculations of the motion of celestial bodies.
A further scientific revolution gained momentum and surprised the world by Newton's laws, medical and anatomical studies of the human body, giving rise to the idea that the blood spread through the ventricular heart.And by the end of the 17th century there was a mathematical language, was discovered logarithmic system of signs.And we can say that the first scientific revolution ended with the creation of the summing machines of Pascal, Leibniz, and then advanced and able to make the operation of multiplication.
