Toward a Scientific World View History 104 / February 1, 2013
Tycho Brahe ( )
Brahe’s compound near Copenhagen
Brahe’s system of observation
Brahe’s effort to explain planetary motion
Vesalius ( )
Title page of the Vesalius anatomy “atlas”
Drawings by Vesalius: human muscles; the arteries
Francis Bacon ( ) The Advancement of Learning (1605)
Bacon urges English scientists to seek new shores (1620)
Masters of medicine I: Paracelsus ( )
Masters of medicine II: William Harvey ( ) On the Circulation of Blood (1628)
Giants of astronomy I: Nicolai Copernicus ( )
Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly spheres (1543)
The Copernican model
Giants of astronomy II: Johannes Kepler ( )
Kepler’s Second Law of Planetary Motion
Giants of astronomy III: Galileo ( )
The Starry Messenger (1610)
Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems (1632)
Galileo faces the Inquisition (1633)
The mechanical universe I: Isaac Newton ( )
The mechanical universe II: René Descartes ( ) Discourse on Method (1637)
Gresham College, first site of the Royal Society of London
Prominent early members of the Royal Society - Robert Boyle - William Harvey - Roger Hook - Anton van Leeuwenhoek - Isaac Newton - Christopher Wren