What are some examples of huge revolutions in thinking or science.

>>2623447
Copernicus

>Finding out the earth is billions of years old
>Finding out that giant lizards ruled the world
>Finding out humans came from other primates
>Finding out that there are billions of planets
>Finding out that germs are tiny creatures that live on everything
>Seeing flying machines for the first time
>Seeing someone go to the moon

>>2623581
The Copernican hypothesis wasn't huge until it actually had supporting evidence, plus it had to be altered by Kepler.

>>2624877
>>Finding out the earth is billions of years old

This is an underrated one, because even those who doubted the standard Mosaic chronology thought the Earth's age was somewhere in the 10s of thousands.

Manhattan Project

>>2624957
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we figured out how to make ourselves go extinct.

>>2624901
And? Evolution was already being discussed and winning adherents before Darwin proposed a mechanism to explain it.

Post structuralism

>>2623447
Hubble´s Law and the expansion of the Universe.
People used to think the universe was static.