Begin your exploration of the Scientific Revolution with the Galileo Project maintained by Rice University.
NASA provides several sites to explore planetary motion, including some simulations of Kepler's laws. Check out the presentation on the Earth Observatory site (be sure to follow to the next page on this site) as well as the simulations on Goddard Spaceflight Center's Imagine the Universe site.
The spread of the Scientific Revolution involved the contributions of a large number of individuals, spread all over Europe. You should get a sense of the kinds of people involved, and the sorts of contributions they represent, by exploring the biographical information available in a widerange of sites.
You should start by reading the brief biographical sketch of Newton by A. Rupert Hall, written for Microsoft's Encarta.
From there, you should go to the Newton Institute site, which will direct you to a variety of on-line resources. Explore some of these, paying particular attention to information about how Newton's work transformed the basic assumption of science and the social status of science in his time.
The Galileo Project contains information on a variety of major figures. You should start with the version of Westfall's short biography of Isaac Newton there (compare it with Hall's version--which do you prefer?), and then explore other figures of the late Scientific Revolution. You can start with the searchable index, or go straight to some of the more obvious people, such as:
After you have explored some of these sites, and believe you have a better grasp of the contributions of at least two of these figures, write two or three paragraphs suggesting the relevance of the Scientific Revolution generally and the work of these individuals specifically for technology in the seventeenth century.
