Contributions Of The Seventeenth Century Scientific Revolution

Contributions of the seventeenth century scientific revolution

While it is true the scientific revolution had a great historical value, especially in the seventeenth century for its contribution in the strengthening and transformation of technical thinking;It is essential to mention its great and recognized precursors such as: Galileo, Harvey, Descartes and Newton;These revolutionaries dedicated their lives to the verification of natural laws of the environment;discoveries that would improve the understanding of social issues that concern society.  

This scientific revolution was born in Europe influenced by the "intellectual monopoly" and the domain of Catholicism, technological and scientific progress sought the best social life and facilitation of human work in front of economic activities such as manufacturing, agriculture or mobile services through instruments orinventions that worked based on powerful energies such as wind, sun or water.

In the seventeenth century a translation was made to the classic Greek texts that gave as results, significant advances in mathematics, medicine, chemistry and knowledge of technical branches;The aristocratic contribution also highlighted its influence on science, improving the vision of society, in terms of man, culture and social philosophy in those who participated in this thought.

The technical contributions were detailed in books, expanding their usefulness in future years, military art, mining, metallurgy, window and navigation were the main beneficiaries for the rise of discoveries in that field, to cite an example: in the agricultural fielddiscovered the devices that grind the grains that were previously crushed by humans;In navigation through candles, speed could be increased based on wind directionality;As for mining, metallurgy and glassmaking, machines were considered that controlled caloric and thermal energy that improved the foundry of raw materials for easy manipulation.

This uprising resulted in the Greek – medieval thought of the ancient era, but in any case the scientific advances influenced and related to society conjugating with the Renaissance revolution that were key pieces to model a new society with new political ideas, economic and moral and ethical tendencies other than existing ones, these decisions improved the conditions of the context.

After the death of Bacon, Descartes, Galileo, the maximum precursors of this revolution. The society is forced to cause a reform of inventions, emerging, Hartlib, Dury, Petty, Boyle, perfecting the existing inventions, that is, expanding the worksCommon of physics or chemistry that were previously performed with traditional objects;These authors in their conceptions were mentioned that creating new machinery could be visualized their love for science and happiness that felt by benefiting millions of people with their contribution.

Among the contributions of the scientific revolution, the development of capitalist economic thought is mentioned, which was considered influenced by human energy saving when replaced by machinery work;in addition to the production and trade of raw material carried out by technology and the human;Another contribution was the rejection of feudalism based on the production and reproduction of free thought regarding the science and truth of the universe, strengthening mathematical language in everyday use.