The Scientific Revolution

By William E. Burns

Lesson 1: Sources of the Scientific Revolution

Bibliography

Oster, Malcolm ed. Science in Europe, 1500-1800: A Primary Sources Reader (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002).

Shapin, Steven. The Scientific Revolution Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

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Lessons

Introduction
Lesson 1: Sources of the Scientific Revolution
• Introduction
• Greek Science
• Arabic Science
• Medieval Science
• Renaissance Humanism
• Practical Science
• Magic and Science
• Bibliography
Lesson 2: Columbus and Copernicus
Lesson 3: Astronomy after Copernicus
Lesson 4: Medicine in the Scientific Revolution
Lesson 5: The New Philosophers
Lesson 6: Science gets organized
Lesson 7: The life sciences in the later seventeenth century
Lesson 8: Newton and Newtonianism