In what concrete ways did the Scientific Revolution effect the Church of 17th century Europe?
The Scientific Revolution of the 17th century reconstructed the scientific of not only the Church, but also of Europe. The discoveries of Scientific Revolutionists, backed by observations of the natural world, contradicted the fundamental views of the universe that the Catholic Church held. This resulted in several consequences. The Catholic Church initially tried these revolutionists for heresy, but eventually they had to give in to the observations of science. Protestantism, which was already quite popular in Europe at this time, became a safe house for 'believers in science', and later for philosophes of the Enlightenment. Scientists constructed a new method of making scientific hypotheses.
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