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Rise of Modern Science
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Outline #1
Spread of Printing Presses
Nova Reperta [New Discoveries]
Defining Science
Scholastic Tradition
Humanist Scholars
Principle of Correspondence in Alchemy
"Magia Naturalis"
Paracelsus, Alchemist & Physician
Reginald Scot and the Critique of Witchcraft
Artisans and Engineers
Outline #2
The Ptolemaic Model
The Copernican Argument for Heliocentrism
Rhetoric of Copernicus's 'Preface'
Foreword to 'On the Revolutions'
Accuracy and Technique in the Copernican Model
Kepler's Quest for Ideal Mathematical Harmony
Kepler's New Elliptical Orbits
Diagrams of Motion
Galileo's Sensation
Galileo on the Phases of Venus
Galileo's Strategy
Galileo's New Physics
Outline #3
The Reformed Anatomical Practice of Vesalius
Harvey on 'The Circulation of the Blood'
Air Pressure Experiments
Bacon's 'New Philosophy'
Extracts from Bacon's 'Organon'
Descartes's Method
Redi's Experiments with Meat, Maggots, and Fly Eggs
Attacks on the Aristotelian Universities
Clocks in Early Modern Science
The Popular Appeal of Machinery
The Mechanists' Conception of God
The Royal Society of London
Outline #4
Newton's Interests & Education
Newton’s “annus mirabilis” of 1665-66
Hooke, Halley, and Newton’s Work on Orbits and Gravitation
Newton's 'Principia'
Whewell on Inductive Reasoning
Outline #5
Newton: The Image of Genius
Newtonian Popular Science and Texts
Mathematical Elaboration of Physics in the 18th Century
Electricity in 18th Century Experimental Physics
Experimental Chemistry of Airs
Outline #6
Salon Culture
Constructing the Image of Galileo
Natural Philosophy & Anglican Theology
A "Newtonian" Conception of God
Skeptical Questioning
Natural Philosophy & the 'Atheist's Bible'
Berkeley's Objections to Newtonian Philosophy
Analyses of Nature and Society
Natural History Collecting
The Proliferation of Philosophical Societies
Merton's "normative structure of science"
Linnaeus's 'Natural Economy'
Outline #7
Rumford's Experiments on the Heat Generated in Cannon-boring
Interconvertibility of Physical Phenomena
The Expansion of Physics in the 19th Century
Outline #8
The Development of Geology in the 18th Century
Development of Industrial Infrastructure
The Lunar Society
Stratigraphy
The Implications of Fossils
The Theory of Special Creations
Lyell's Principle of Uniformity
Outline #9
The Comparative Method
Herschel on Naturalistic Explanation
Darwin's Geology following Lyell's Principles
The Inspiration of Humboldt's Science
Natural History Methods & Techniques
Darwin on Birds of the Galapagos
Darwin's 'Origin of Species' (1859)
Outline #10
Writing a History Essay
Rise of Modern Science
Rhetoric of Copernicus's 'Preface'
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