The paper analyzes the book "The
Revolution in Science: 1500-1750" by Rupert Hall in which he challenges some of the more
conventional opinions that have tended to circulate about the historical rise of the
scientific revolution. The paper discusses Hall's opinion that the shift in consciousness that marked the formal beginning of the Renaissance was not as violent or all-consuming as one might readily think. Rather, the transition was brought about through the heightening of intellectual tensions within pre-existing fields of inquiry.