05.03 The Scientific Revolution Assessment

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Step 1: Complete the chart.

 

Descriptive Words:	Explanation
Example: History	More than two hundred years after the start of the Scientific Revolution, in the 1800s the German Leopold von Ranke moved to make the study of history more scientific rather than artistic, literary, or philosophical. He argued that history is strictly a matter of figuring out what actually happened, not why events matter or their meaning. Historians continue to debate Ranke’s perspective, but he established history as a major academic field.

 

Step 2:

Choose one Great Thinker and explain in one complete paragraph how they challenged the accepted views of the time period.