Please help me understand in detail the key facts of the scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth-centuries and please help to

Please help me understand in detail the key facts of the scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth-centuries and please help to understand 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?