Introduction: The Scientific Revolution
Marie Boas Hall
Historians, unlike geologists, tend to see the past at first view not as a long, continuous development, but series of tenuously connected jumps, which they call revolutions. Only later does critic move in insist that every revolution has slow period development precedes it, or least argue your is better characterized culmination growth, although his may be genuine. Nineteenth century historians were interested art and literature secular rationalism, so their revolution—which catapulted Europe, thought, into modern world—was Renaissance. Twentieth-century criticized this by finding earlier examples “rebirth”—the Renaissance twelfth century, Carolingian Ottonian Renaissances ninth tenth centuries—and then denied there was any such thing “rebirth” anything, emphasizing all human history been change. (In support older it must forgotten men Europe thought indeed reviving re-creating best remote past.)
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