INTELLECTUAL

REVOLUTIONS
THAT DEFINED
SOCIETY
SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS
How can science be defined?

• Science as an idea.
- includes ideas, theories, and all available systematic explanations and observations
about the natural and physical world.

• Science as an intellectual activity.

- involves systematic observation and experimentation.
- encompasses a systematic and practical study of the natural and physical world.
SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS
How can science be defined?

• Science as a body of knowledge.

- a body of knowledge that deals with the process of learning about the natural and
physical world.
- refer to as school of science.

• Science as a personal and social activity.

- explains that science is both knowledge and activities done by human beings to develop
better understanding of the world.
- a means to improve life and to survive in life.
SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS
▪ Claimed to have started in 16th to 18th century in Europe.

Why in Europe?
Probable Answers:
❑Invention of the printing machine;
❑The blooming intellectual activities done in various places of learning; and
❑The growing number of scholars in various fields of human interests.
WHAT IS SCIENTIFIC
REVOLUTION?
❑Period of enlightenment when the developments in the fields of:
▪ Mathematics
▪ Physics
▪ Astronomy
▪ Biology
▪ Chemistry
transformed the views of society about nature.

❑ Explained the emergence or the birth of modern science.

INFLUENCES TO SCIENTIFIC
REVOLUTION
• Development of human
beings
• Transformation of society
• Formulation of scientific
ideas
 AMONG THE THREE
INFLUENCES,
IN WHICH PART DO YOU
THINK DID SCIENTIFIC
REVOLUTION START?
INFLUENCES TO SCIENTIFIC
REVOLUTION
THINKERS
AND
INTELLECT
UALS
 THINKERS
▪ A person with highly developed
intellectual powers.
▪ Great Thinkers:
Philosophers (Aristotle)
Theorist (Einstein)
Scholars
INTELLECTUAL
▪ Understand advance concepts which transcend the
understanding of the average man
▪ Come up with original solutions to complex problems
which are long dumped into the “mental bin” of the
ordinary mind
▪ Think and speak with sophisticated language
▪ Problem solvers