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How did science and philosophy interact in developing the new world view that emerged in the 17th and 18th centuries?
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How did science and philosophy interact in developing the new world view that emerged in the 17th and 18th centuries? For people in the modern times, the fact that the sun is the center of the solar system and there is gravity on Earth is a simple truth that everybody knows for sure. This is the world view and the sense of universe we had since the 17th and 18th centuries which were the period of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment. We can say that throughout the seventeenth century philosophy continued to extend and intensify ideas first developed in the Renaissance by pushing them to new extremes (Lawrence Cunningham, Culture and Values). We can also say that if the Renaissance marked the birth of modern philosophy, the seventeenth century signaled its coming of age (Cunningham 381). Before that time, the information would be taken as scary stories or even...
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