Toward a Scientific World ViewHistory 104 / February 1, 2013

Tycho Brahe(1546-1601)

Brahe’s compound near Copenhagen

Brahe’s system of observation

Brahe’s effort to explain planetary motion

Vesalius(1514-1564)

Title page of the Vesalius anatomy “atlas”

Drawings by Vesalius: human muscles; the arteries

Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

The Advancement of Learning

(1605)

Bacon urges English scientists to seek new shores (1620)

Masters of medicine I:

Paracelsus(1493-1541)

Masters of medicine II:

William Harvey(1578-1657)

On the Circulationof Blood (1628)

Giants ofastronomy I:

Nicolai Copernicus (1473-1543)

Copernicus,On the Revolutions of the

Heavenly spheres(1543)

The Copernican model

Giants ofastronomy II:

Johannes Kepler(1571-1630)

Kepler’s Second Law of Planetary Motion

Giants of astronomy III:

Galileo(1564-1642)

The Starry Messenger(1610)

Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems (1632)

Galileo faces the Inquisition (1633)

The mechanical universe I:

Isaac Newton(1642-1727)

The mechanical universe II:

René Descartes(1596-1650)

Discourse on Method (1637)

Gresham College, first site of the Royal Society of London

Prominent early members of the Royal Society

- Robert Boyle- William Harvey- Roger Hook- Anton van Leeuwenhoek- Isaac Newton- Christopher Wren