The key science in the scientific revolution was a. theology. b. biology. c. chemistry. d. physics.?

a. theology

All these people in one way or another, got the church ticked off at them and some were even killed as heretics. These people led the revolution created by theology. They were curious, intelligent, and observant. They were not satisfied that, the church was right about everything and had the last word on everything. Plus, most of these people really went against the church to prove them wrong, because the church would suppress everything. Alchemy for example was a key, thing that people constantly continued to try. Why, the church declared it unholy and anyone babbling in it would be put to death. Like if you are a kid, the more your parents say do not do that or never look in that box. Sooner or later you curiosity will get you to do it. So the church with is persecution, represson and restriction of knowledge, made people look elsewhere for answer..AKA-sience.

Read the site I provided. It will give you names and circumstance. Of all the changes that swept over Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the most widely influential was an epistemological transformation that we call the "scientific revolution." In the popular mind, we associate this revolution with natural science and technological change, but the scientific revolution was, in reality, a series of changes in the structure of European thought itself: systematic doubt, empirical and sensory verification, the abstraction of human knowledge into separate sciences, and the view that the world functions like a machine. These changes greatly changed the human experience of every other aspect of life, from individual life to the life of the group. This modification in world view can also be charted in painting, sculpture and architecture; you can see that people of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are looking at the world very differently.

The scientific revolution did not happen all at once, nor did it begin at any set date. Realistically speaking, the scientific revolution that we associate with Galileo, Francis Bacon, and Isaac Newton, began much earlier. You can push the date back to the work of Nicolaus Copernicus at the beginning of the sixteenth century, or Leonardo da Vinci in the middle of the fifteenth. Even then, you haven't gone back far enough and you haven't included all the factors that contributed to the set of epistemological transformations that we call the scientific revolution.

You're safer to find the origins of the scientific revolution in the European re-discovery of Aristotle in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Aristotle entered the European Middle Ages by means of the Islamic world, which had preserved both Aristotelean and Platonic philosophy after Europe had completely forgotten it. Originally, Aristotle based knowledge on a kind of empiricism: he would investigate a question by a) examining what everyone else had said about the matter, b) making several observations, and finally, c) deriving either general or probable principles on the matter from both a and b. This method of thinking, which is the theoretical origin of empirical thought, formed the rudiments of a new revolution in human thinking in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The earliest Aristoteleans were burned as heretics (in a medieval university, when they fired you, they really fired you;have you ever wondered where the expression might come from?). Eventually, Aristoteleanism was combined with church doctrine to form a hybrid type of inquiry: Scholasticism. Unlike Aristoteleanism, Scholasticism did not have a strong empirical bent, but some Aristotelean thinkers took to Aristotle's empiricism like a duck to water. In the thirteenth and fourteenth century, empirical science began to take off. People such as Roger Bacon conducted empirical investigations on natural phenomena, such as optics.The rage of all the medieval scientists, however, was alchemy .

Theology was like a cult to these men, it told you what to believe in and you had to do it. They had other ideas and explored and experimented them. The church had to many holes in it's story and these early pioneers in science found and filled the holes, not with more religion. But with science. Creating more doubt in theology and more scientists to challenge the church.