This era was named for its rapid accumulation of knowledge. Groundbreaking work was published on electricity, optics, mechanical calculation, and the human body, launched in 1543 with Vesalius’ On the Fabric of the Human Body in Seven Books. Publications by “science heroes” Copernicus in 1543, Kepler in 1609, Galileo in 1610, and Newton in 1687, explained the heliocentric model in which we no longer occupied the center of the cosmos. Early science fiction/fantasy appeared, including Bacon’s New Atlantis in 1627, Kepler’s Somnium in 1634, and Cavendish’s The Blazing World in 1666. The First Folio, a posthumous collection of Shakespeare’s dramas, was published in 1623. Woodblock printing was widely adopted in Japan during the Edo period (1603–1868), pioneers in applying movable type to the creation of artistic books. The first working steam engine was patented in 1698 by English inventor Thomas Savery.
| Era Scientific Revolution Era (1543 – 1687) |
| Alternative Names 17th Century Early Modern Theater and Print Cultures, Baroque Era, Early Edo Period, Dutch Golden Age |
| Total Entries 22 |
| Articles Scientific Revolution – Wikipedia Woodblock printing in Japan – Wikipedia History of science fiction – Wikipedia |
| Description This era was named for its rapid accumulation of knowledge. Groundbreaking work was published on electricity, optics, mechanical calculation, and the human body, launched in 1543 with Vesalius’ On the Fabric of the Human Body in Seven Books. Publications by “science heroes” Copernicus in 1543, Kepler in 1609, Galileo in 1610, and Newton in 1687, explained the heliocentric model in which we no longer occupied the center of the cosmos. Early science fiction/fantasy appeared, including Bacon’s New Atlantis in 1627, Kepler’s Somnium in 1634, and Cavendish’s The Blazing World in 1666. The First Folio, a posthumous collection of Shakespeare’s dramas, was published in 1623. Woodblock printing was widely adopted in Japan during the Edo period (1603–1868), pioneers in applying movable type to the creation of artistic books. The first working steam engine was patented in 1698 by English inventor Thomas Savery.
The Scientific Revolution was a series of events that marked the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology (including human anatomy) and chemistry transformed the views of society about nature. The Scientific Revolution took place in Europe in the second half of the Renaissance period, with the 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus publication De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) often cited as its beginning. The Scientific Revolution has been called “the most important transformation in human history” since the Neolithic Revolution. The era of the Scientific Renaissance focused to some degree on recovering the knowledge of the ancients and is considered to have culminated in Isaac Newton’s 1687 publication Principia which formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation, thereby completing the synthesis of a new cosmology. The subsequent Age of Enlightenment saw the concept of a scientific revolution emerge in the 18th-century work of Jean Sylvain Bailly, who described a two-stage process of sweeping away the old and establishing the new. There continues to be scholarly engagement regarding the boundaries of the Scientific Revolution and its chronology… ~ Scientific Revolution – Wikipedia
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