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Essay Archive - Discoveries of Scientists of the "Age of Reason"
Discoveries of Scientists of the "Age of Reason"
The discoveries of many scientist and great thinkers of the "Age of
Reason" have all contributed to the entire scope of how we view astronomy
today. The shift was of a less secular thesis to one based on humanism and
the Scientific Method. There were several great thinkers that led to this
discovery on the scientific level, which chiefly began and ended with the
astronomers/scientists Copernicus and Isaac Newton.
Copernicus was a mathematician as well as a scientist whom found the
stars fascinating. He did, however, find a great flaw with the
mathematica....
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