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The central topic of this paper concerns the influence the Scientific Revolution gave to the birth of Epistemology. I have specifically demonstrated that specialization of various disciplines, especially physics, and the notion of even and infinite space, which were introduced during the time of the 17th-18th Century Scientific Revolution, were the key factors of originating meta-scientific epistemology in the 17th to 19th Centuries. The Scientific Revolution was the movement which basically destroyed the Aristotelian world view including his scientific theory, and replaced it with the Newtonian model, but without being able to assign a total metaphysical explanation. To cope with this incomplete world view and realization of the impossibility of the direct approach in metaphysical questions, philosophers such as Locke, Descartes, and Kant began an investigation into the human nature itself. Due to these efforts, epistemology was formulated as a meta-scientific theory which has properties that Mannheim correctly analyzed; a meta-scientific process which has a subject and an object structure and places scientific knowledge between the two as a necessity.