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The Age of Enlightenment was influenced by the growth in scientific knowledge that began in the mid-17th century. People looked for reasons why things happened the way they did. Modern chemistry and biology grew out of this questioning and the existing knowledge about astronomy and physics was greatly improved. | The Age of Enlightenment was influenced by the growth in scientific knowledge that began in the mid-17th century. People looked for reasons why things happened the way they did. Modern chemistry and biology grew out of this questioning and the existing knowledge about astronomy and physics was greatly improved. | ||
=====3 Enlightenment, science and empiricism===== | |||
[https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/history-art/the-enlightenment/content-section-3 by The Open University] | |||
The Enlightenment's dedication to reason and knowledge did not come out of the blue. After all, scholars had for centuries been adding to humanity's stock of knowledge. The new emphasis, however, was on empirical knowledge: that is, knowledge or opinion grounded in experience. This experience might include scientific experiments or firsthand observation or experience of people, behaviour, politics, society or anything else touching the natural and the human. For any proposition to be accepted as true, it must be verifiable, capable of practical demonstration. | |||
