The scientific revolution dated back to the sixteenth century and went through the
             eighteenth century. The scientific revolution began with the study of astronomy and physics
             and ended after René Descartes's idea of deductive reasoning. Religious authorities rejected
             the Copernican system at first because it did not correlate with the Bible but later began to
             accept the scientific revolution. Secular authorities did not reject the idea of the scientific
             revolution because it promoted new ideas and technological advances.
             In the early 1500s, traditional European ideas about the universe were still based
             primarily on the ideas of Aristotle, the great Greek philosopher of the fourth century B.C.
             According to Aristotelian view, a motionless earth was fixed at the center of the universe.
             When the Copernicus theory emerged to the public in 1543 in the book On the Revolutions
             of the Heavenly Spheres, it created much conflict with the church. The Copernicus theory
             stated that the sun was center and planets moved around the sun in an elliptical shape. This
             great theory led to many other events that were almost as influential in creating doubts about
             In 1572, a new star appeared and shone very brightly for almost two years. Tycho
             Brahe of Denmark established himself as Europe's leading astronomer with his detailed
             observations of the new star. His data was turned into mathematics with the German
             Johannes Kepler. Kepler showed that the orbits are elliptical, planets do not move at uniform
             speed, and the time a planet takes to make its complete orbit correlates with the planet's
             distance from the sun. After Kepler came Galileo who discovered the first four moons of
             Jupiter, Earth's moon is bumpy and not smooth, and Galileo also generated the law of inertia.
             Isaac Newton developed the three laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation. Se
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