1. Toward a Scientific World View History 104 / February 1, 2013

2. Tycho Brahe (1546-1601)

3. Brahe’s compound near Copenhagen

4. Brahe’s system of observation

5. Brahe’s effort to explain planetary motion

6. Vesalius (1514-1564)

7. Title page of the Vesalius anatomy “atlas”

8. Drawings by Vesalius: human muscles; the arteries

9. Francis Bacon (1561-1626) The Advancement of Learning (1605)

10. Bacon urges English scientists to seek new shores (1620)

11. Masters of medicine I: Paracelsus (1493-1541)

12. Masters of medicine II: William Harvey (1578-1657) On the Circulation of Blood (1628)

13. Giants of astronomy I: Nicolai Copernicus (1473-1543)

14. Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly spheres (1543)

15. The Copernican model

16. Giants of astronomy II: Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)

17. Kepler’s Second Law of Planetary Motion

18. Giants of astronomy III: Galileo (1564-1642)

20. The Starry Messenger (1610)

22. Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems (1632)

23. Galileo faces the Inquisition (1633)

24. The mechanical universe I: Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

26. The mechanical universe II: René Descartes (1596-1650) Discourse on Method (1637)

27. Gresham College, first site of the Royal Society of London

28. Prominent early members of the Royal Society - Robert Boyle - William Harvey - Roger Hook - Anton van Leeuwenhoek - Isaac Newton - Christopher Wren