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The phrase '''the scientific revolution''' refers to the period around the 1500s in which science in the modern sense—the systematic use of hypotheses, continually tested by experimentation and observation—began to be developed, as exemplified by the ''Copernican revolution.'' Thomas Kuhn's book ''The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,'' popularized the phrase ''a'' scientific revolution to refer what he called "paradigm shifts," fundamental changes in accepted scientific thinking brought about by crises in the existing theory; the Copernican revolution would be the model of such a revolution, and [[quantum theory]] and [[plate tectonics]] would be modern examples.
The phrase '''the scientific revolution''' refers to the period around the 1500s in which science in the modern sense—the systematic use of hypotheses, continually tested by experimentation and observation—began to be developed, as exemplified by the ''Copernican revolution.'' Thomas Kuhn's book ''The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,'' popularized the phrase ''a'' scientific revolution to refer what he called "[[paradigm shift]]s," fundamental changes in accepted scientific thinking brought about by crises in the existing theory; the Copernican revolution would be the model of such a revolution, and [[quantum theory]] and [[plate tectonics]] would be modern examples.
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. The author suggests that "Galileo, the layman, was himself partly to blaim for the persecution which the churchman, Copernicus avoided." He then 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. The author suggests that "Galileo, the layman, was himself partly to blaim for the persecution which the churchman, Copernicus avoided." He then continues: