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Intellectual Revolution
Darwinian Revolution
The English naturalist, geologist and biologist, Charles Darwin is credited for stirring another important intellectual revolution in the mid-19th century.
The Darwinian Revolution benefitted from earlier intellectual revolutions especially those in the 16th and 17th centuries, such that it was guided by confidence in human reason’s ability to explain phenomena in the universe.
Darwin gathered evidence pointing to what is now known as natural selection, an evolutionary process by which organisms, including humans, inherit, develop, and adapt traits that favored survival and reproduction.
His treatise on the science of evolution, “On The Origin of Species” was published in 1859 and began a revolution that brought humanity to a new era of intellectual discovery.
Copernican Revolution
The Copernican Revolution refers to the 16th-century paradigm shift named after the Polish mathematician and astronomer, Nicolaus Copernicus
Copernicus formulated the heliocentric model of the universe. At the time, the belief was that the Earth was the center of the Solar System based on the geocentric model of Ptolemy.
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He formalized his model in the publication of his treatise “De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestrium” (The Revolution of Celestial Spheres) in 1543.
In his model, Copernicus repositioned the earth from the center of the solar system and introduced the idea that the earth rotates on its own axis
The contribution of the Copernican Revolution is far-reaching. It served as a catalyst to sway scientific thinking away from the age-long views about the position of earth relative to an enlightened understanding of the universe. This marked the beginning of modern astronomy.
Freudian Revolution
Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud is credited for stirring a 20th century intellectual revolution named after him the Freudian Revolution.
Freud developed psychoanalysis a scientific method of understanding inner and unconscious conflicts embedded within one’s personality springing from free associations, dreams and fantasies of the individual.
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