The Scientific Revolution.

The Scientific way of thinking which was developed in the late fifteenth century, was critical to the disintegration of the cohesive medieval view of the world prior to that (Perry, Chase, Jacob, Jacob & Von Laue 2000: 411). The beginning of the Scientific Revolution signified the new mechanical approach to nature, which enabled westerners to discover and explain the laws of nature through logic and experimentation. Although the scientific way of thinking was essentially different from …

…tried to draw parallels between the older tradition, while keeping the general ideas that could now be supported by logical and mathematical reasoning, as summarised by the following quote: "Do you really believe that the sciences would have originated and grown if the way had not been prepared by magicians, alchemists, astrologers, and witches whose promises and pretensions first had to create a thirst, a hunger, a taste for hidden and forbidden?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche).