Scientific Revolution in Europe during 17th Century?

Science in the Muslim world pre dated the European by several hundred years. The lenses for the first telescopes and microscopes were invented in the muslim world first. Its when ideas and books from the East were opened up to the West that scientific discovery really raced ahead in Astronomy, Mathematics, Medical and Physics etc..

All the discoveries mentioned so far were just translations from the original 13th and 14th century Aramaic books. This is where the European 'breakthrough' came from and why the paradigm shift happened so quickly.

I am not a Muslim, but credit where credit is due.

Chris

Yes, there was. The major breakthroughs were in the invention of the telescope and then the microscope. In England Robert Hooke spent hours staring down a microscope and published his Micrographica in which, for the first time, people saw, for example, how the head of a house fly looks. The telescope enabled the discovery of the rings of Saturn and Sir Christopher Wren made a detailed map of the moon's surface. The circulation of the blood in the body was discovered. Sir Isaac Newton published his Principia Mathematica and explained the workings of gravity. There was a paradigm shift, away from superstition to 'Reason (cf John Locke) which led to the Enlightenment of the 18th century. In England this was led by people such as I have already mentioned clubbing together in the Royal Society which held weekly meetings which discussed all the latest inventions and discoveries.

EDIT: Whilst I agree that the Arab world, particularly those in Spain, were great scholars and their learning was well ahead of Western thinking in the 11-13 centuries, it is just nonsense to suggest that the works by Hooke, Newton and Locke previously mentioned were 'just translations'. This assertation is totally unsupported by evidence. Further, the learning of the Arabs was purely academic (except, perhaps, in medecine). It did not lead to the 'paradigm shift' that happened as a result of the work of the English and Dutch scientists of the 17th century.