Wednesday 26 October 2011

How has people's understand of the world changed by the Scientific Revolution?

I just simply need some details to back up my answer. I've never really covered the Scientific Revolution until now, but the basics are pretty clear to me...
How has people's understand of the world changed by the Scientific Revolution?
Both Aristotelian metaphysics and the Christian worldview gave way to a mechanical view of the universe. The natural world came to be though of as a type of giant machine, obeying known (or at least knowable) regular universal laws, laws which ideally could be expressed in mathematical language.