The Scientific Revolution

18th-century Wax Anatomical Model, Florence, Italy

Handouts (Word Documents)

• Chapter 1: New worlds and old worlds
  
• Chapter 2: The connected world
  
• Chapter 3: The superlunar world (pre-telescopic astronomy)
  
• Chapter 3: The superlunar world (telescopic astronomy)
  
• Chapter 4: The sublunar world (Earth, Motion on Earth, Water & Air)
  
• Chapter 4: The sublunar world (Fire: the chymists’ tool, Atomism & Mechanism)
  
• Chapter 5: The microcosm & the living world
  
• Chapter 6: Building a world of science
  
  
• Eureka: The Birth of Science--Aristotle (2003)
  
• New Worlds & old worlds (2011)
  
• "The Recovery & Assimilation of Greek & Arabic Science" (1992)
  
• Aristotle & Ptolemy from The Scientific Revolution (1998)
  
• Ptolemy's Almagest from Worldviews (2004)
  
• The Scientific Revolution: From Dawn to Decadence (2000)
  
  
• Copernican Revolution [Powerpoint]
  
• The Copernican Revolution (2004) by Richard DeWitt
  
• De revolutionibus(1543) by Nicolaus Copernicus
  
• Gilbert, Copernicus & the Giant Lodestone (2002) by Stephen Pumfrey
  
• Johannes Kepler & William Gilbert Revolution in Science (1985)
  
• Relocating the Heavens: Copernicus, Tycho, Kepler Making Modern Science (2004)
  
• Matching Quotes: Aristotle, Ptolemy, Copernicus
  
• Matching Quotes: Galileo, Bacon, Descartes
  
  
• Renaissance Anatomy [Powerpoint]
  
• Andreas Vesalius: Reformer or Revolutionary? (1985)
  
• Mondino de' Luzzi & Aristotelian "Causes"
  
• Excerpts from The Agony & the Ecstasy (1961)
  
• Andreas Vesalius, De fabrica corporis humani (1543)
  
• William Harvey & a Revolution in Life Sciences (1985)
  
• Excerpts from the writings of Paracelsus
  
  
• The Starry Messenger (1610) [Powerpoint]
  
• Excerpts from The Starry Messenger (1610) by Galileo
  
• Galileo's Evidence from the Telescope (2004) by Richard DeWitt
  
• Problems Facing the Aristotelian Worldview (2004) by Richard DeWitt
  
• Astronomy Illustrations: Nova of 1572, Lunar craters & sunspots
  
• Galileo versus The Church: Cartoon History [Part I]
  
• "Science" & "Religion": Everlasting Conflict?
  
• Day Two: Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems(1632)
  
• "Galileo and the Telescope" (1911)
  
• Origins of Modern Skepticism, from The Scientific Revolution (1998)
  
  
• Isaac Newton: Newton's Dark Secrets (NOVA)
  
• Of Genius, Fire, & Plague (1996)
  
• Newtonian Worldview (2004)
  
• Newton's Method: The Unity of Truth from Dobbs & Jacob (1998)