Unit 3:: From Scientific Revolution to Enlightenment
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In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, European civilization experienced a series of intellectual and cultural changes that provided the foundation for modern science and paved the way for the Enlightenment. In the Middle Ages, European academic knowledge of the natural world was shaped by the classical heritage, in particular by the works of Aristotle, the astronomer Ptolemy, and the physician Galen. Their works and the commentaries upon them by ancient, Islamic, and medieval writers formed the core of the medieval university curriculum on natural science.

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