scientific revolution

is an ideological revolution characterized by the application of mathematics to nature.

. It is the first work, in fact, to develop a detailed reading of the scientific revolution as a whole in terms of the 'Platonic' idea that the thoroughgoing application of mathematics to nature (the so-called mathematization of nature) is the central and overarching achievement of this revolution.

is the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

But [William] Glen [a distinguished geologist and historian of science at the United States Geological Survey in Menlo Park, CA...] reminded me of the famous statement by Freud that I have often quoted in these essays: The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

scientific revolution, n.Definitions

scientific revolution