THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION OF THE XVII CENTURY
A Website of the Buenos Aires History of Science and Epistemology

Research Center

Created and directed by Dr. Juan Carlos Garelli

 

 

LEADING FIGURES OF THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION


Nicholas of Cusa
Nicolaus Copernicus
Giordano Bruno 
Tommaso Campanella 
Bernardino Telesio 
Francis Bacon
René Descartes
John Locke 
Robert Boyle
Robert Hooke 
Isaac Newton

Christopher Wren
Wilhelm von Leibniz 
Edmond Halley
Andreas Vesalius
Johannes Kepler
Pierre de Fermat
Gilles de Roberval
Blaise Pascal
Giovanni Cassini
Pierre de Carcavi
Pierre Gassendi 
Claude Mydorge 
Adrien Auzout 
Christiaan Huygens
Evangelista Torricelli
Marin Mersenne
Johann Bernoulli 
Girard Desargues 
James Gregory 
Francesco Cavalieri 
Jacques Bernoulli 
Nicolas Malebranche 
Marcello Malpighi 
Bernardino Ramazzini 
John Napier 
Adriaan van Roomen 
John Wallis 
William Gilbert 
Galileo Galilei 
Tycho Brahe 
Baruch Spinoza 
Niels Steensen (Steno) 

Thomas Bartholin 

Nicolas Malebranche
Isaac Barrow

 


RELATED LINKS

 

The Galileo Project

 

The British Library

 

National Library Catalogues Worldwide

 

Historical Text Archive

 

EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe

 

WWW-VL The World Wide Virtual Library History

 

Metasearch Engines

 

Robert Hatch's Scientific Revolution Website

 

Cambridge University Library

 

Oxford Libraries Information System (OLIS)

 

The British Royal Society Library

 

24 of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland 

 

Bibliothèque national de France

 

Catalogue collectif de France

 

The Library of Congress  (Washington D.C.)

 

Harvard Libraries

 

The New York Public Library

 

History of Science Rare Book Collection

 

British Society for the History of Science

Journals

 

University of Florida History of Science Journals

 

Buenos Aires Attachment Research Center

 

Changing Links

 

ExactSeek

 

The Secular Web

 

SearchHippo Web Search

 

The Robert Boyle Project, University of London

 

The Mac Tutor History of Mathematics: 

 

Indexes of Mathematicians

 

History Topics Index

 

Famous Curves Index

 

Mathematicians of the day

 

Search Mathematicians

 

Search Mathematicians and Scientists beginning by 'A'  

 

Science in the Ancient Greece and Rome

 

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

 

Links to Plato's Dialogues on the Web

 

Links to Aristotle's Works on the Web

 

Links to Giordano Bruno

 

More links to Giordano Bruno [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

 

Links to Neoplatonism

 

Links to the Hundred Years' War

 

Links to the Thirty Years' War

 

 


SCIENCE IN ANTIQUITY


The Presocratics

Ionic Schools

 

Thales

Anaximander

Anaximenes Heraclitus

 

Italian Schools

 

Parmenides

Zeno

Alcmaeon Empedocles Anaxagoras

Leucippus

Democritus Hippocrates Hippocratic Schools Herodotus Thucydides Xenophon (Works)


Socrates

Plato (Works)

Aristotle (Works)


Alexandrian Developments

 

 Aristarchus Herophilus

Dyonisius Eratosthenes

Plutarch

Euclid

Archimedes Apollonius

 


Miscellanea

 

Scientific Revolution questionnaire

 

List of 264 Popes

 

Kuhn's thesis of the Scientific Revolutions

 

Hippocratic Treatise on fractures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LEADING FIGURES OF THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION


Preliminary considerations

          A Thesis that accounts for the Rise of the Scientific Revolution

  The Reformation: Background

  The Reformation: Martin Luther

  Protestant Reformation

  The Educational Reform

  Secularization of thought and religious beliefs


The Middle Ages

Feudalism

St Augustine

Neoplatonism

Scholasticism

St. Thomas Aquinas

More on Aquinas, Medieval Philosophy and Scholasticism


The Role of the Roman Church

Origins of the Papal Empire I

Origins of the Papal Empire II

Warfare during the Crusades

An Agnostic Approach to the Crusades

The Church In The High Middle Ages

The Medieval Church as an Economic Corporation

Social 'Function' of the Church


René Descartes (1596-1650)

Discourse on Method (1637)

Meditations (1641)

Principles on Philosophy (1644)


Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

The New Organon (Novum Organum)

The Advancement of Learning, Book I

The Advancement of Learning, Book II

The New Atlantis

The Essays

The Great Instauration (Instauratio Magna)


ROBERT BOYLE (1627-91)

Life and Thought of Robert Boyle

The Sceptical Chymist

Thought and Significance

Bibliography

The Works of Robert Boyle

The Correspondence of Robert Boyle

The Work-Diaries of Robert Boyle

On The Boyle (Newsletters 1 - 5)

Boyle's London


Robert Hooke (1635-1703)

Robert Hooke's discoveries

Robert Hooke: England's Leonardo


Postmodernism: Modern Intellectual Impostures

         The Sokal Affair

             Editorial Response to Alan Sokal original text

             Sokal's Reply to Social Text Editorial

            Transgressing the Boundaries: An Afterword, By Alan Sokal

                 Alan Sokal Articles on the "Social Text" Affair

 


Current Topics

Scientific Methodology

The Warfare of Science with Theology

The Robert Boyle Project, University of London

Hippocratic Medicine, its import to the Scientific Revolution

Decadence of Hippocratic Medicine

Art, its relationship to the Scientific Revolution 

The Inconsistencies of Galileo

 


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This website is directed by

Juan Carlos Garelli, M.D., Ph. D.

The contents of this page are copyright of Juan Carlos Garelli, M.D., Ph.D. 1996, 2004, all rights reserved. Last updated: Aug 12, 2004.