What is the most suitable question for an assignment regard to scientific revolution for baroque period?my lecturer ask us to think of a question...

You might consider writing about how the Scientific
Revolution challenged traditional thought about science. Previously, all learning,
including that of science was based on authority. Experimentation was considered
dangerous, as it might lead one into error, error led to sin, and sin led to damnation.
The only two authorities who were acceptable were the Bible and Aristotle. When
Aristotle, supported by Claudius Ptolemy, said that the entire universe was geocentric,
that was accepted as authority, and the church intervened if anyone questioned it.
Copernicus only published his On the Revolutions of the Heavenly
Bodies from his deathbed. In his dedication to Pope Paul III, he commented
that he anticipated detractors:

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Perhaps there will be babblers who claim to be
judges of astronomy although completely ignorant of the subject and, badly distorting
some passages of Scripture to their purpose, will dare to find fault with my undertaking
and censure it. I disregard them even to the extent of despising their criticism as
unfounded. For it is not unknown that Lactantius, otherwise an illustrious writer but
hardly an astronomer, speaks quite childishly about the earth's shape, when he mocks
those who declared that the earth has the form of a globe. Hence scholars need not be
surprised if any such person will likewise ridicule
me.

Galileo discussed his
finding sin The Starry
Messenger:

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Great indeed are the things which in this brief
treatise I propose for observation and consideration by all students of nature. I say
great, because of the excellence of the subject itself, the entirely unexpected and
novel character of these things, and finally because of the instrument by means of which
they have been revealed to our
senses.

Yet because his ideas
conflicted with the authority of the day--namely the church--he was forced to recant and
remained under house arrest the remainder of his life.

So,
you might consider the effect of the Scientific Revolution in challenging previously
accepted authority. There should be ample material there for you to write
about.