Lesson+on+Causes+of+Scientific+Revolution

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__From Lingling's Group:__

The growing interest in the world led to the people's desire to discover which school of thought was correct, and also new and simple solutions to solve their longstanding problems. the people also started to do scientific experiments, in which the printing press was formed. It led to the easier spread of ideas, such that knowledge was gained. Printing was also cheaper than copying books manually as it made materials easily available to a larger percentage of the population. Furthermore, with their increased interaction with other countries, they mastered Greek and Latin, amd gained even more knowledge, also from the Americas. The artist also imitated nature in accurate proportions in their attempt to understand the world better, allowing an advancement in math and science.

__From Peibing's Group:__

Emergence of Empiricism: Observations, Experiments and Instruments Using the instruments, people can measure things like volume of water, density, weight and height etc so that they can work on their experiments more accurately. If their experiments succeeded, they could distribute their knowledge to the people by printing and selling the books. With all these instruments, it allowed advancements in many different fields.

__From the Group with Jodie, Andrea, Yi Yun, Aliza and Iram:__

The main cause of the Scientific Revolution was the thirst of knowledge about God. This led people to learn Latin, the language the Bible was written in. Also, the cost of printing fell and made available to many more people the Bible, and also in languages they could read. Ironically the widespread availability of the Bible resulted in people thinking for themselves and doubting that the Church was the only authority. This thinking then led to a thirst of knowledge for the correct school of thought and ultimately resulted in the Scientific Revolution.

__**With much love, From HuiJun, Huiwen, Vanessa, Valerie, Jingwen and Leti**__
 * Point:** People started developing new ideas and ways of thinking that contradicts with their existing beliefs and attitude. This led to the people to have a growing curiosity and mounting questions about the world, hence leading to them pushing the boundaries of the world that they know.
 * Examples:** The ancient authorities had their own explanation for the phenomenon of this earth, according to a strict theological framework that was basically unchallenged and unquestioned until the beginning of another period. For example, the unquestioned authorities of the middle ages, Aristotle and Galen had been contradicted by other philosophers. This led to a lot of scientific work to find out the truth.
 * Conclusion** : therefore, this process of discovery and pursuit led to several scientific advancements like the inventions of many new instruments (telescopes, vacuum pump, thermometer, barometer and microscope). This was because they realized that they could explain several phenomenon using scientific instruments to provide concrete evidence. Moreover, there is also an increase in convenience with the invention of the scientific instruments. This, all these led to the **SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION!**

__**From Lidia, Tracy, Rebekah, Joanne and Yun Ting's group**__ They wanted to prove theories because they wanted to discover which school of thought was correct, thus stimulating new scientific work that sometimes led to a complete rejection of the classical authorities. This was so because they realised that the ancient theories could not account for new observations without highly complicated adjustments. Such inconsistency posed problems, thus forcing people to come up with new theories to address these long-standing problems by paying greater attention to mathematics, which may lead them to discard the honoured theories they had inherited from antiquity. With a growing need to address the problems they faced, more people ventured into the scientific field, leading to an increase in scientific advancement, which is termed as the period of scientific revolution.


 * __From Cherine, Rosemarie, Kay Lynn, Ji Xin, Michelle__**

The most important cause is the translation of the works of different countries by scholars, to enable them to be made more available to other people and the rest of the world. This way, when they discover contradictions and identification of practical problems, it pressed the people to solve these problems. In the process of doing so, people discover new things due to careful observations which eventually led to scientific revolution. Hence, we think that the translation by scholars is the most important cause because it is the root case that led to scientific revolution. For example, translation of works of different countries enable more people in Europe to study books on science and technology, this knowledge gained affected the Scientific Revolution.