The Scientific Revolution

By William E. Burns

Lesson 7: The life sciences in the later seventeenth century

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.

Westfall, Richard. The Construction of Modern Science: Mechanisms and Mechanics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977.

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Lessons

Introduction
Lesson 1: Sources of the Scientific Revolution
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
• Introduction
• The coming of the microscope
• Botany
• Medicine and the Mechanical Philosophy
• Anatomy and physiology after Harvey
• Bibliography
Lesson 8: Newton and Newtonianism