Intellectual Revolutions
Intellectual Revolutions
Intellectual Revolutions
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Intellectual Revolutions
Question for Reflection
2. Why did the people accept these new discoveries despite being contradictory to what
was widely accepted at that time?
- People accepted those new discoveries because they were backed up with evidence.
These evidence were gathered through scientific research. Despite the contradicting
idea being introduced by these discoveries, sufficient amounts of data were
gathered through scientific analysis which made it acceptable and valid.
4. Can you name other scientific revolutions that happened in the following places?
a. Meso-America - Other important scientific revolution that happened in
Mesoamerica were their belief in the cycles of planets and celestial beings like the
sun, and the moon; they also built observatories which helped in their agricultural
and architectural calculations.
b. Asia - At present, probably the most notable country in Asia in terms of its
technological and scientific achievement is Japan, which is particularly known for its
electronics and automobile products.
c. Middle East - The Syrians were skillful as experimental metallurgists. The Damascus-
made Sword was highly reputable for its mighty strength.
d. Africa - Africa has the world's oldest record of human technological achievement:
the oldest stone tools in the world have been found in eastern Africa, and later
evidence for tool production by our hominin ancestors has been found across Sub-
Saharan Africa
5. Can you name other scientific revolutions that happened in the Nursing profession?
- Florence Nightingale and Martha E. Rogers represent two scientific revolutions in
nursing as a learned discipline. The outcomes of the two scientific revolutions in
nursing have been the professionalization of nursing that evolved from Nightingale's
work, followed by the disciplinary and paradigmatic revolution that is represented
by Rogers' works, from which derive the philosophy of the unitary human being, the
environment, and the homeodynamic principle.