SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION. SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION. The scientific revolution took place from the sixteenth century through the seventeenth century and saw the formation of conceptual, methodological, and institutional approaches to the natural world that are recognizably like those of modern science.ISTORIOGRAPHY AND THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION. The scientific revolution is the historians' term and should be seen as a shorthand way of referring to a multitude of historical phenomena and processes, not all of which were directly related to one another.
President James A. Garfield. Photo: Library of Congress. Charles J. Guiteau, a mentally unstable 41-year-old lawyer, had stalked Garfield for months before shooting him at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad station in Washington on July 2, 1881.
Georges Cuvier (1769-1832), leader of elite French science. John van Wyhe, Fellow, National University of Singapore; Researcher, History & philosophy of science, Cambridge University. Georges Cuvier was one of the most influential figures in science during the early nineteenth century. A self-appointed referee of proper science from his stronghold in the elite AcadÃ©mie des Sciences, Cuvier was as successful in creating his own image as a great man of science as he was in the many areas of science he studied.