- Scientific
Revolution

 

 

 

 


Kneller, Sir Isaac Newton (1689)


Copernican  Model of Universe (1543)


Galileo, Painting of the Moon
(1612)


Hooke's Flea from Micrographia (1664)

Antony van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723)
An overview of van Leeuwenhoek's life and work with a link to a similar page on Robert Hooke.

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  • Explain the divergent paths of religion and science in the early 17th century.
  • How did the scientific revolution contribute to man's quest to understand the natural world?
  • How did the scientific revolution naturally contribute to the emergence of the Enlightenment?
  • Understanding the context of the time, why were the theories of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler
    and Newton so threatening to the Roman Catholic Church?

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Diagram of Boyle's air pump


Wright., A Philosopher Giving That Lecture on the Orrery, in Which a Lamp Is Put in Place of the Sun (1766)

The Solar System: The Orrey

Robert Hooke, Curator of Experiments for the Royal Society, studied organisms under this microscope


Kepler's Laws of Motion (1609)


Illustration of a fly's eye. From Robert Hooke's Micrographia (1665).


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Copernicus:
  • 2420 Georg Rheticus, Copernicus' only student and his prophet
  • 241 Giordano Bruno and the radicalization of Copernicus

Kepler:


Bacon:
  • 1637 In which science and magic struggle to become separate pursuits
  • 1542 In which Francis Bacon pushes a strict Aristotelian Agenda

Physics and Astronomy:
  • 2434 Understanding the Relationship Between Physics and Metaphysics
  • 2222 Jeremiah Horrocks, the 23-year-old "Father of English Astronomy"
  • 1537 John Wilkins talks about life on the Moon, in 1638

Galileo:

Inventions:
  • 1543 Archimedes' pump, rediscovered by Ceredi, heralds the new science
  • 1300 Daniel Fahrenheit invents the thermometer and its scale
  • 613 William Gilbert and de Magnetica
  • 682 In which Ole Roemer learns the speed of light in 1675
  • 1359 The Windmill: A device that has come, gone, and which may come again
  • 2213 Henri Pitot, his tube, and the Pont du Gard
  • 1329 16th Century scientist, Christiaan Huygens, looks for alien life
  • 549 Anton Leeuwenhoek -- a lesson in simplicity and honesty
  • Antony van Leeuwenhoek, from a journal [The Eye of a Fly]
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Mathematics:
  • 2434 Understanding the Relationship Between Physics and Metaphysics
  • 2290 The Platonic "regular" solids: mathematics and divinty

Geology
  • 354 Thomas Burnet and the scale of geological time

Clocks:
  • 1294 The clock as preparation for modern science
  • 1307 Pendulum clock escapement: science and technology merging

Newton:


Chemistry
  • 350 Robert Boyle, and his laboratory assistants: Hooke and Papin

Medicine:
  • 325 Andreas Vesalius, renaissance artists, and experimental anatomy
  • 336 William Harvey, the doctor who unraveled blood flow
  • 1992 Harvey and Willis at Oxford during the English Civil War
  • 358 Giovanni Battista Morgagni: Father of anatomical pathology
  • 1586 Topsell's history of four-footed beasts and serpents

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