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Scientific Revolution - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Environmental determinism, human are influenced by the environmental conditions. Cultural relativism.
  - - - He advocated surveying a holistic structure of the universe with the emphasis on the importance of accuracy by using the latest analytic instrumentation. Also, he tried to build a casual relationship between organic life and local environment.
  - - - First accurate map of India and detailed research on he oceanography
  - - - Separated the domain of science and religion and proposed that metaphysical knowledge could never be learned from science, rather we should focus on the “phenomenal” sphere which deals with world-with-appearance and how we perceived and structured them by mind.
  - - - looking for naturalistic explanations for cause of natural phenomena; diminishing divine participation of natural phenomena
  - - - He disputed catastrophic events as an explanation of the earth's landforms. As the founder of uniformitarianism, he argued earth's process acts as a series of circles, therefore the present observation could be used to interpret the history.
  - - - Located legislative regulation within the context of "the nature of things". Build a connection between geographical circumstances with social mores.
- - - - Human's knowledge about the God is limited, therefore opposed the fusion of science
        with religion, promoting a materialistic atheism that divides science from spirituality.
- - - - Pioneering work in demography and the history of population statistics
  - - - Regional boundaries, culture, histories, relations...etc. were defined by all-wise Providence. Advocated first-hand experience and empathy to the observed.
  - - - Founder of natural theology, built the connection between science and religion and proposed mechanical concept of natural order
  - - - Evidences of divine design are shown in the human and animal has been pre-adapted for conditions of life on earth.
  - - - Employing empirical investments to justify the view of divine design. (e.g. explaining earth's present landform by the Noachian flood)
  - - - Observed
        the stratification of the earth and employed these data to justify the divine design.