What impact did the Scientific Revolution have on the Enlightenment in Europe?

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The Scientific Revolution had such a profound impact on the Enlightenment Period that expanded the western thought on science, religion, and other aspects of life. Before the Scientific Revolution there was a major medieval view of the world primarily focused on religious and theological views and theories, though philosophy was beginning to become a well known and respected discipline in the sense of education and intellectuals. The medieval universities that had started to provides the framework for a developed degree of importance in education and free inquiry. Leading universities became thriving centers for major scientific figures to study or teach fields such as mathematics, astronomy, and physics, along with new and developed fields of philosophy. The Renaissance stimulated the rediscovering of science and ancient mathematics along with stimulating new literature and philosophy by putting an importance on rediscovering the ancient texts of Latin and Greek intellectuals. But the Scientific Revolution and recent contribution to what developed into the Enlightenment Period in the 18th century proved to be more important in how the Enlightenment would play out. The Enlightenment was the fundamental notion that emerged due to a secular world view that natural science and reason could explain all aspects of life. Scientists such as Rene Descartes, Isaac Newton, Francis Bacon, Galileo Galilei, and others put an importance on the development of science and fact-based reasoning. the Scientific Method, the Natural Laws of Motion, Calculus, and microscopes are some of the many advancements made in science that propelled Europe into the Enlightenment era. new groups of successful and prestigious intellectuals so sauce join together such as the Royal Society England to help stimulate intelligent discussions about developments science and other areas of study. Deism and new political theories such as John Locke's developed from the new emergence of natural thought that reason governed the universe. Many of these theorists developed their theories and ideas from the scientific discoveries that had recently preceded them in the scientific revolution, such as the use of Newton's Natural Laws in Baruch Spinoza's philosophy of a world with God equated to nature. So hundreds of examples exist where the developments in all aspects of intellectualism, from philosophy and political theory to astronomy and physics, contributed largely to the turn out of the Enlightenment period that kickstarted Euorpeans into the modern world of thought and life.