A rapid and far-reaching development in science; specifically (with the and sometimes with capital initials) the developments occurring in the early modern period in many branches of science and regarded as having a significant influence on European intellectual culture, considered as a discrete historical process.
Origin
Early 19th century.
Definition of scientific revolution in US English:
scientific revolution
noun
A rapid and far-reaching development in science; specifically (with the and sometimes with capital initials) the developments occurring in the early modern period in many branches of science and regarded as having a significant influence on European intellectual culture, considered as a discrete historical process.