Scientific Revolution
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The Scientific Revolution
- SUMMARY: The Scientific
Revolution
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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.
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WEB See The Galileo Project [At Rice] for a
website focused on the early scientific revolution.
- Traditional Aristotelianism
- Aristotle
- The Great Chain of Being
- New Medieval Analyses of Motion
- Buridan
- 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.
- The Challenge: Astonomy in
the 16th Century
- Galileo Galilei: The Turning Point
- 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 (1561-1626): The New Atlantis, 1627
[At this Site]
- Francis Bacon (1561-1626): The New
Atlantis, 1626 [At ArtBin][Full Text]
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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]
- Réne Descartes (1596-1650): Discourse
on Method, 1637, extracts [At WSU]
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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]
- The Creation of Classical Physics
- New Medical Theories
- Scientific Institutions
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