Two scientists, Nicholas Copernicus and Galileo Galilei, both held the same theory that the Earth was revolving around the sun, but were punished because the church took the bible to literal that the Earth is at center. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The enlightenment began in an age of, "unprecedented intellectual turmoil which commenced in the mid-seventeenth century,"" and was associated with the scientific progress of the early seventeenth century, especially the discoveries of Galileo. ...

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In the seventeenth century, people witnessed the developments of the Scientific Revolution that was advanced by the scientific method proposed by Sir Frances Bacon and the heliocentric arguments of Galileo Galilei. ...

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• Grade Level: High School