Contrary to prevailing opinion, the roots of Modern Science were planted in the ancient and medieval worlds long before the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century.
With the scientific riches it derived by translation from Greco-Islamic sources in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the Christian Latin civilization of Western Europ.
Indeed, that revolution would have been inconceivable without the cumulative antecedent efforts of three great civilizations: Greek, Islamic, and Latin.
Contrary to prevailing opinion, the roots of Modern Science were planted in the ancient and medieval worlds long before the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century