Ch.16 pg. 477-488

• the Scientific Revolution was an intellectual and Cultural change that happened between the mid-sixteenth century and the early eighteenth century. in which they used the methods of science to to explain the world. it had also challenged the teachings and the authority of the church. as well as the ancient hierarchies and political systems. 
• The conditions of European were very favorable to rise in science because of the evolution of the legal system and it had guaranteed  independence for institutions. which universities became zones of intellectual autonomy.
• Educated- Europeans had dominated by seeing the world before the Scientific Revolution as it has resulted from Aristotle and Ptolemy. Which the earth is the center of the earth and the universe sun , the moon and stars revolve around it.