2ND Thomas S. Kuhn: Structure of Scientific Revolutions,
1962 [At Emory]
Summary of theories of an important modern theorist of the idea of scientific
revolution.
WEB See The Galileo Project [At Rice] for a
website focused on the early scientific revolution.
Nicholas Oresme (1323-1382): Basic
Information [At St. Andrews]
An important late medieval scientist. Not all was dark before Copernicus. Oresme, Catholic
Bishop of Lisieux, wrote on the nature of light, and invented coordinate geometry long
before Descartes.
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727): Principia:
Book Two. Lemma II. [At Trinity College Dublin]
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]
Andreas Vesalius (1514-64):
De humani
corporis fabrica, 1543, frontispiece of 1555 edition, [At Internet Archive, from UAB], and see
Detailed Images [At Medicina Antiqua]
See also Brief Bio [At
Plymouth], or here [At Virginia]
Vesalius Image Archive [At
Vesalium.com]
Archive of medical and anatomical images. Not for the squeamish.
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name or location]. Locally available texts are marked by [At this Site]. WEB indicates a link to one of small
number of high quality web sites which provide either more texts or an especially valuable
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