ScientificandRevolution
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The Enlightenment
1700 AD – Present day
Theme 1
Interaction Between Humans and the Environment
Technologically speaking, the Scientific Revolution allowed for the ability to
use our environment to better our human lifestyles. Technology and philosophy
are the building blocks that make up our modern world today and make up the
whole of the Scientific Revolution. We utilize the resources provided to us by the
environment to fuel our engineering capabilities. There are negative effects,
however, due to the fact that we are currently using non-renewable resources
such as gas and petroleum. Our expansion in technology has also allowed us to
build with our environment, meaning that we are using our constructing
capabilities towards a “greener” way of obtaining energy. Furthermore,
technological advancements in first-world countries, such as the United States,
have encouraged immigration from other areas of the world who are looking for a
greater lifestyle. We must also be cautious about our use of our technology,
because immigration is the number-one cause of disease-spreading. Foreign
diseases are difficult to control, but we combine the power of nature's healing
ability and technology's power of convenience to create cures for such diseases.
Theme 2
Development and Interaction of Cultures
The Enlightenment was (and still is) the greatest conflict-creator
between cultures. The Enlightenment explained philosophy, coming up with
clearer answers than those previously provided. Such philosophies include
mathematics, astronomy, and basic physics. Philosophers “replaced the public
guesses” on how the world worked with reason. Explaining logical reason
rather than what was socially acceptable, early scientists created conflict in
many cultures. An example of this would be with Galileo Galilei. Because of his
remarkable research on astronomical observations, he discovered Jupiter's
four largest satellites (moons) and observed the sun-spots on our sun. His
work challenged the ideas of the Jesuit culture and was tried for heresy, forced
under house arrest. This is a great example of how difficult it was to accept
new ideas into extremely traditional cultures. Despite Galileo's opposition with
the Jesuits, he was still named the “father of Modern Science” and played a
major role in the Scientific Revolution. The Enlightenment and the Revolution
both aided our world's current ideology and negatively interacted with
traditional cultures, marking this era as the scientific curve in the study of
philosophy.
Theme 3
State Building, Expansion and Conflict
The Scientific Revolution overall is a term used for most
revolutions involving the expansion and exploitation of our discovered
sciences, mainly fueling the Industrial Revolution and the Neolithic
Revolution. The Industrial revolution gathered from science and
philosophy the necessary concepts needed to increase the rate of food
and shelter production to match our exponentially growing population.
With our growing population, our government needs an improved idea in
order to match this population growth and uses all sources available to
build a better state. Because of our ability of intellect, we are able to
utilize technology to improve every field of study in the world.
Government, politics, society, culture, and especially agriculture are all
capable of improvement and will be improved inevitably.
Theme 4
Creation, Expansion and Interaction of
Economic Systems
This is the field in which the Scientific Revolution shows it's
true capabilities as it shows us what impact our technology has on
our economy and export production. Our technological advances
allow us to produce, package, ship and receive goods across the
world by creating mods of transportation. We use the scientific terms
“buoyancy” and “propulsion” to increase our understanding of oversea trading. Boats and ships powered by steam or hydraulics came
from the Enlightenment in which we explained how we were able to
get objects to float above aqueous substances. These improvements
in trade have greatly impacted us economically as trading is the
number-one way to obtain goods that are difficult to gather and send
goods to other states who are in the same predicament.
Theme 5
Development and Transformation of Social Structures
As we can agree, the Industrial Revolution is the effect caused
by the Scientific Revolution. Because of the Industrial Revolution's
impact on agriculture and technological production, more workers and
laborers are required in order to meet the demands. These workers are
very easy to obtain as the first thing a person wants to do when they
grow up is to earn money. This creates a whole new working class in
most modern day societies. People are required to operate and
cooperate with the machinery to make sure the demands of the
population are met. This new working class is developed via the
technological advancements and the need to increase production in
the factories built from the Industrial Revolution. The country with the
most availability to working class-men and modern technology tend to
be the most influential economy-wise. This puts the United States,
Japan and Germany at the top of the product production list.