Throughout history there have been developments that have had a dramatic affect on a period of time. Many happenings during the reformation and scientific revolution have made long lasting impacts for further inventions and ideas. A few things in which inspired new developments are the humanist movement, Gutenberg's printing press, and the use of the scientific method. The humanist movement was part of the Renaissance, which caused people to believe that knowledge should encourage a …showed first 75 words of 853 total…

…showed last 75 words of 853 total…and observing, while Descartes focused mainly on emphasizing human reasoning, which he thought was the best way to understand anything. Francis Bacon said that science was a way to make life better for people by leading inventors to practical technologies. Both of these men helped to bring the scientific method to find out about other possible knowledge. They opened a way to the "enlightenment of the 1700's" and spread the idea of possible human progress.