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The Contributions Of Science And Science

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As a contemporary writer observing the timeline of modern science, and all the abridgments made to it over the past few centuries, one cannot help but ponder upon the course that science took to reach what it is today. We are aware of the pioneers of science such as Newton, Lavoisier, Stahl, Joule, Maxwell, Einstein etc, and all of the groundbreaking contributions these extraordinary individuals made to mould science into what we today know it to be. Over the course of History of Science, we have examined the various factors influencing the life and work of various men of science, and how the society, polity and religion of their time affected their contributions to science. We began with the classical elegance of Newtonian Enlightenment, drifted onto the chaotic happenings of the Industrial Revolution, glanced past the Romantic Movement and finally came upon the Einsteinian revelation. Through the course of the 300 or so years the aforementioned periods encompassed, we have seen scientific theories envisioned, published, critiqued, lauded and destroyed. Time is our witness as we analyze the many edits made to the holy text of science, and keeping in mind the irony of the previous sentence , I attempt to answer the question, “Is Modern Science a result of a few abrupt revolutions, or is it a carefully cumulative accumulation of knowledge”?

I begin with a brief introduction as to what is meant by “revolution, “scientific revolution, “revolutionary theories” in the context

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