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Scientific Revolution


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Contents
The Scientific Revolution

Traditional Aristotelianism

New Medieval Analyses of Motion

The Challenge: Astronomy in the 16th Century

Galileo Galilei: The Turning Point

Philosophy of Science: Induction/Deduction

The Creation of Classical Physics

New Medical Theories

Scientific Institutions

Science and Religion

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The Scientific Attitude

  • Voltaire (1694-1778): Letters on the English or Lettres Philosophiques, full text, c. 1778 [At this Site]
    Voltaire was responsible for disseminiating many of the ideas of the English scientists and political theoriests among the (very large) French-reading people of Europe.
  • Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790): Experiments with Balloons, 1783 [At this Site]
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