Q Limited to the usual 500 words or less, and using the lecture on the 'Scientific Revolution' and the readings from Rabb and le Van Baumer, consider evidence that would support the assertion that the process was 'revolutionary.' At Newton's death in 1727, his good friend Alexander Pope, then the Poet Laureate of England, wrote an epitaph for Newton, which reads, All Nature and Nature's law lay hid in night, God said "let Newton be, and all was light" -- casting Newton as the 'Messiah' of a new age of science and reason. Was the change truly that trans-formative, and does the story of Galileo illustrate that the victory was hard won, not just in reference to the Church and its allies, but among the scientists themselves.