The Scientific Revolution designates a rapid series of scientific discoveries in western Europe during the 17th century.
There were numerous causes of the Scientific Revolution including the rise of empiricism, new inventions, and new discoveries that questioned the works of ancient philosophers like Aristotle or Galen. The scientific method, the process of analyzing natural phenomena, was formulated during the Scientific Revolution.
Astronomers such as Copernicus and Galileo discovered that the Earth revolves around the Sun, and physicists such as Kepler and Newton discovered the forces that made the universe operate such as Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion and Newton's Laws of Motion and Gravity. Mathematicians found ways to simplify computing and analysis of data on charts, which enabled scientists to read their findings more easily and publish them more quickly.
Chemists started to study the states of matter while biologists explored the microscopic world, furthering our understanding of human anatomy. These discoveries sometimes led to conflict with the Catholic Church.