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The phrase  '''the scientific revolution''' refers to the development in the centuries around the 1500s in which science in the modern sense—the systematic use of hypotheses test  by experimentation and observation—began to be developed, as exemplified by the ''Copernican revolution.'' The phrase ''a'' scientific revolution is associated with Thomas Kuhn's book ''The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,'' and refers to "paradigm shifts," such as the Copernican revolution, quantum physics, and plate tectonics—fundamental changes in accepted scientific thinking.

The phrase  '''the scientific revolution''' refers to the period of time in centuries around the 1500s in which science in the modern sense—the systematic use of hypotheses test  by experimentation and observation—began to be developed, as exemplified by the ''Copernican revolution.'' The phrase ''a'' scientific revolution is associated with Thomas Kuhn's book ''The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,'' and refers to "paradigm shifts," such as the Copernican revolution, quantum physics, and plate tectonics—fundamental changes in accepted scientific thinking.

An 1867 article in the church-oriented ''Contemporary Review'' uses the phrase, while making the point that the scientific revolution was not only not, as often implied, an opposition to religion, but was in fact largely the work of the clergy. He suggests that "Galileo, the layman, was himself partly to blaim for the persecution which the churchman, Copernicus avoided," he continues:

An 1867 article in the church-oriented ''Contemporary Review'' uses the phrase, while making the point that the scientific revolution was not only not, as often implied, an opposition to religion, but was in fact largely the work of the clergy. He suggests that "Galileo, the layman, was himself partly to blaim for the persecution which the churchman, Copernicus avoided," he continues: