This presentation gives an overview of the Scientific Revolution in the 17th-18th centuries. It is a continuation of my earlier presentation on the Age of Discovery.

1. The Scientific Revolution
17th-18th c.

2. Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry,
and Geology

3. Astronomia Nova
Johannes Kepler, 1609

5. Phases of Venus
and Other Planets
Galileo Galilei, 1610

7. History and Demonstrations Concerning
Sunspots and Their Properties
Galileo Galilei, 1613

8. One of Galileo’s Drawings of Sunspots

9. Galileo Showing the Doge of Venice How to Use the Telescope
Giuseppe Bertini, 1858

10. Galileo Facing the Roman Inquisition (1633)
Cristiano Banti, 1857

11. New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall
Touching the Spring of the Air
Robert Boyle, 1660

12. Boyle’s Air Pump

13. The Subterranean World
Athanasius Kircher, 1665

15. Mathematical Principles of
Natural Philosophy
Isaac Newton, 1687

17. Synopsis of the Astronomy
of Comets
Edmond Halley, 1705

18. Halley’s Comet in 1910

19. Anatomy, Biology, and Medicine

20. On the Motion of the Heart and
Blood in Animals
William Harvey, 1628

22. The Discourse on Method
René Descartes, 1637

24. Micrographia
Robert Hooke, 1665

26. Hooke’s Drawing of a Louse

27. Hooke’s Drawing of a Flea

28. Tractatus de Corde
Richard Lower, 1669

30. Richard Lower Transfusing Lamb’s
Blood to a Man, 1666

31. An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump
Joseph Wright, 1768

32. The Surgeon Dentist
Pierre Fauchard, 1728

33. Dental Surgery Instruments

34. Dentist’s Drill

35. The Classification of Knowledge

36. Systema Naturae
Carl Linnaeus, 1735

38. L’Encyclopédie
Denis Diderot, 1751-72

41. The Classical Orders

42. The Art of Engraving

43. Pen Nibs

44. Camera Obscura

45. Corsets

46. Knee Breeches

47. A Pin-Making Factory