The key facts of the scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth-centuries
Describe in detail the key facts of the scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth-centuries and show in what way they can induce a skepticism about knowledge based on sense experience. If we can reduce the sun’s rising in the East and setting in the West to an ‘appearance’ what other as yet unthought-of large-scale illusions could we possibly be the unknowing victims of?