In the 1500's and 1600's, some startling discoveries radically changed the way Europeans viewed how and why things happened in the physical world. Three scientists who contributed to these changed were Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton. These scientist changed some beliefs of which many had been believed for all of time. For almost all of time, the geocentric theory was believed to be true. This theory suggested that all planets revolved around the …showed first 75 words of 482 total…

…showed last 75 words of 482 total…fell to the ground, or why we even stayed on the ground until Newton's law of gravity was discovered. In conclusion, the scientific revolution changed the worlds beliefs entirely. Religious beliefs were proven to be wrong and questions were answered. Copernicus first with his opinion on the heliocentric theory, Galileo second with proof of Copernicus' theory, and Newton third with the laws of gravity to explain how and why the planets revolved around the sun.