Of all the changes that swept over Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the most widely influential the "Scientific Revolution." We associate this revolution with natural science and technological change, but the scientific revolution was really a series of changes in the structure of European thought itself. These changes greatly changed the human experience of every other aspect of life, from individual life to the life of the group. The Scientific Revolution did not happen all at once, nor did it begin at any set date. …
