Scientific Revolution

The Scientific Revolution is a name that some modern historians use to describe what they call a shift in approach in the mid-1500s whereby experimentation and research was emphasized more than reliance on traditional beliefs. Their best example is the acceptance that the Earth revolves around the Sun, not the Sun around the Earth.

The whole idea of the Scientific Revolution is a myth that is caused in part by some terminological confusion. There was increased acceptance of a revolution in the sense of an cosmological revolution of the Earth. There was no intellectual revolution in the sense of a profound change in intellectual thought. Experimentation and research were just as important in the much older cosmological models. The progress of science has been gradual and continuous.