the period of great advances in the sciences, roughly 1500-1700
Galileo and Kepler were major figures in the scientific revolution.
Christians almost universally believed the Bible endorsed geocentrism until the scientific revolution proved that view false.
As a result, Europe, not China, had a scientific revolution.
The scientific revolution effected by Descartes begins a new period, which is now closed by the creation of the French Republic.
A scientific revolution could never shake the realities of religion, but only the illusions of religion.
The scientific revolution which began in the seventeenth century came through a surrender of this point of view.
It is that of effectively adjusting to the changes caused by a scientific revolution.