How the Copernican revolution had an effect on the science, physic, art, and the church

Copernican revolution and its Effects

The Copernican revolution was followed in the 19th and 20th centuries by the Darwinian revolution, which continued the trend toward the naturalistic outlook becoming the normative way of understanding the universe. If the Copernican revolution meant that humans were no longer the center of the universe, then the Darwinian revolution meant that humans could no longer see themselves as sitting at the peak of the hierarchy of living creatures. The ancient world subscribed to a hierarchy later known as the Great Chain of Being, which went in a line from God or gods, downward through men, then women, higher animals, lower animals, plants, and rocks. But like the earlier habit of seeing the earth as the center of the universe, the Great Chain of Being hierarchy was supported by a supernaturalism outlook that new facts no longer supported. It was now apparent that humans were more like the other animals and shared a planetary ecosystem with them. (Solomon, 21)

Effect on Science

The third great naturalist revolution is still unfolding today. It is the revolution in genetics and neurophilosophy, which is rendering obsolete the last major prescientific conceit of our having incorporeal souls and a mind, which is not the same thing as our brain. These three great revolutions in our understanding have elevated naturalism to its current position as the normative outlook for all serious thought. (Shook, 85)

  The amount and diversity of artistic works during the period do not fit easily into classes for understanding, but some loose generalizations may be drawn. At the opening of the years, baroque forms were still well liked, as they would be at the end. They were partially supplanted, however, by a general lightening in the ...