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HI203 THE EUROPEAN WORLD 1500-1720
THEME 3: CULTURE
THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
QUESTIONS
 What are the traditional views of the Scientific Revolution?
 What are the revisionist views of it?
WHAT ARE THE TRADITIONAL VIEWS OF THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION?
Nicolaus Copernicus's De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of
the Heavenly Spheres
Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body)
The Royal Society (1662).
Aristotelian
empiricism
Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626), Novum Organum
Galileo Galileo (1564-1642)
René Descartes (1596–1650), Discourse on the Method
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543)
Ptolemy (90-168 AD)
Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564)
William Gilbert (1544–1603), On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and On the
Great Magnet the Earth
Tycho Brahe (1546–1601)
Johannes Kepler (1571–1630)
William Harvey (1578–1657)
Wilhelm Schickard (1592–1635)
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
Robert Boyle (1627–1691), The Sceptical Chymist
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723)
Isaac Newton (1643–1727)
calculus
Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716)
binary system
Denis Papin (1647–1712)
Edmond Halley (1656-1742)
WHAT ARE THE REVISIONIST VIEWS OF THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION?
Byzantine
Maragheh school
Avicenna (980-1037)
The Oxford Calculators
Rhazes (865-925)
Ibn al-Nafis (1213-1288)
Isaac Newton, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (first edition 1687)
Alhazen (965-c.1039)
Arun Bala, The Dialogue of Civilizations in the Birth of Modern Science (New York,
2006)
Alhazen's Book of Optics