Scientific Revolution and the Enlightment

The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightment showed Europe and the Americas a completely new way of looking at the world around them, which caused people to change their views about the universe. They entered the Enlightment, in which philosophers applied reason to society and government, developed ideas about basic human rights and proper government, and began to consider democratic ideas and concepts of nationalism.
The Scientific Revolution changed the way that the Europeans looked at the world. One way was by Copernicus' heliocentric system, which said that the sun was the center of t…