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Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Scientific Revolution
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Contents
The Scientific Revolution
Traditional Aristotelianism
New Medieval Analyses of Motion
The Challenge: Astronomy in
the 16th Century
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Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543): Dedication
of The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies, 1543 [At Bartleby] [Internet Archive version here]
- Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543): Dedication of The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies, 1543 [At this Site]
- Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543): The Revolutions of the Heavenly
Bodies, 1543, selection from main text, [At this Site]
- Wikipedia: Nicolaus Copernicus
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Tycho Brahe: Life [Was At
kth.se, now Internet Archive]
- Wikipedia: Tycho Brahe
- Tycho Brahe (1546-1601): Tico Brahæ his astronomicall coniectur of the new and much admired * which appered in the year 1572 (illustrated translation into English, 1632) [Wikisource]
- Wikipedia: SN 1572 (The New Star, a supernova, withness by Tycho Brage in 1572)
A web page with illustrations of Brahe's observations and system.
- Wikipedia: Johannes Kepler
- Johannes Kepler (1570-1630): Laws of Planetary Motion [Was At CVC, now Internet Archive]
A web page illustrating the laws in diagrams
- Johannes Kepler (1570-1630): Kepler's Conversation with the Starry Messenger (English translation of Dissertation cum Nuncio Sidereo), trans. Edward Rosen (1965) [Was CMU, now Internet Archive]
- The Question of Discovery and Invention
Galileo Galilei: The Turning Point
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Galileo Galilei (1564-1642): The Authority of Scripture [At this Site]
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642): Letter to the Duchess
Christina of Tuscany, 1615 [At this Site]
RG Reading Guide
- Galileo Galilei (1563-1642): Dialogues on the System of the World, 1612, excerpts [At this Site]
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642): The Sidereal Messenger, trans Edward Carlos (1880), full text, [Project Gutenberg]
- Wikipedia:
Galileo Galilei [Catholic Enclopedia]
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Galileo Galilei [Catholic Encyclopedia]
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Galileo's
Pendulum Experiments - a modern recreation [At Rice] [Internet Archive version here]
- The Crime of Galileo: Indictment 1633 [At this Site]
- Cardinal Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621): Letter on
Galileo's Theories, 1615 [At this Site]
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Cardinal Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621): Information [At
Rice] [Internet Archive version here]
- Index of Forbidden Books, Some listed authors,
1559-1964.
- Index of Forbidden Books,
frontpage of 1664 edition [published From 1559 to 1964] [Was At Texas Humanities, now Internet Archive]
Part of Bonfire of Liberties [Was At Texas Humanities, now Internet Archive]
An exhibition of banned books. But see also the Vatican Library Exhibition, which shows the role of the Vatican in preserving culture.
Philosophy of Science:
Induction/Deduction
- Bernardino Telesio (1509–1588): from On the Nature of Things According to Proper Principles, 1565[At this Site]
- Francis Bacon (1561-1626): from First Book of Aphorisms [At this Site]
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Francis Bacon (1561-1626): Novum
Organum [Full Text] [At Hanover]
- Francis Bacon (--1626): The New Atlantis,
1626, excerpts [Was At Clinch Valley College, now Internet Archive]
- Francis Bacon (1561-1626): The New Atlantis, 1627
[At this Site]
- Francis Bacon (1561-1626): The New
Atlantis, 1626 [At ArtBin][Full Text] [Internet Archive version here]
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Francis Bacon (1561-1626): Various Texts [Index at
Hanover]
- Voltaire (1694-1778): On Francis Bacon, from
Letters on the English or Lettres Philosophiques, c. 1778 [At this Site]
- Ben Jonson (1573-1625): On Lord Francis Bacon, 1625
[At this Site]
- Wikipedia: René Descartes
- René Descartes (1596-1650): Discourse on Method, 1637, excerpts [At this Site]
- Réne Descartes (1596-1650): Discourse on Method, 1637, extracts [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive]
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Réne Descartes (1596-1650): Discourse on Method,
1637 [At Project Gutenberg][Full text]
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Réne Descartes (1596-1650): Méditations, 1641 [At
Wright][Full text][Trilingual edition: Latin, French, and English] [Internet Archive version here]
The Creation of Classical Physics
- Wikipedia: Isaac Newton
- Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727): Optics, excerpts [At this
Site]
On atomic theory and induction.
- Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727): Mathematical Principles of
Natural Philosophy, excerpts [At this Site]
On the rules of reasoning in philosophy.
- Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727): Principia, 1687, excerpts [At thisSite
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Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727): Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, excerpts [Was At Then Again, now Internet Archive]
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Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727): Three Laws of Motion,
in Latin [At the Latin Library]
- Wikipedia:Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
- Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727): Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy in English, full text [Wikisource]
- Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727): Principia:
Book Two. Lemma II. [At Trinity College Dublin] [Internet Archive version here]
Newton describes what is essentially the Product Rule for differentiation, applying it to
calculate the `moments' of quantities that are expressed as products of powers of other
quantities whose moments are known.
- Voltaire (1694-1778): Letters on Newton,
from the Letters on the English or Lettres Philosophiques, c. 1778 [At this
Site]
- Cambridge in the Time of Newton [Modern Account][Was At History House, now Internet Archive]
- Joseph Priestley: The Discovery of Oxygen, 1776 [At
this Site]
New Medical Theories
Scientific Institutions
Science and Religion
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The Scientific Attitude
- Voltaire (1694-1778): Letters on the English or Lettres
Philosophiques, full text, c. 1778 [At this Site]
Voltaire was responsible for disseminiating many of the ideas of the English scientists and political theoriests among the (very large) French-reading people of Europe.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790): Experiments with Balloons,
1783 [At this Site]
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