In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the new Copernican view of astronomy, or heliocentric view, changed scientific thought and methods when it came to intellectual, social, and religious factors. In the early 1500s, traditional European ideas about the universe were still based on the 2000 year old geocentric ideas of Aristotle, a great Greek philosopher. The scientific revolution that took place replaced these views with Copernicus' heliocentric model.
Scientific thought and methods were changed, to a great extent, because of intellectual reasons. Thinkers were becoming more widely educated. Within their staff of philosophers at universities, they established new pr
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