History of the Modern World, 10th Edition (Palmer)

Chapter 6: The Scientific View of the World

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XXXII. Prophets of a Scientific Civilization: Bacon and Descartes

1. Science before the Seventeenth Century

2. Bacon and Descartes
• [Image Francis Bacon]
• [Primary Source Bacon, Novum Organum, Preface]
• [Primary Source Bacon, Advancement of Learning]
• [Primary Source New Atlantis]
• [Primary Source Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method, 1637]

XXXIII. The Road to Newton: The Law of Universal Gravitation

1. Scientific Advances
• [Image Andreas Vesalius]
• [Image Vesalius, Structure of Human Body]
• [Primary Source William Harvey, On the Movement of the Heart and Blood]
• [Image John Napier]
• [Image Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]

2. The Scientific Revolution: Copernicus to Galileo
• [Image Nicholas Copernicus]
• [Primary Source Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies, 1543]
• [Image Tycho Brahe]
• [Image Johannes Kepler]
• [Image Galileo]
• [Primary Source The Crime of Galileo,]

3. The Achievement of Newton: The Promise of Science
• [Primary Source Isaac Newton, Mathematical Principles, 1687]
• [Primary Source Origin of the Royal Society of London]
• [Primary Source Letters patent establishing the French Academy, 1635]
• [Image Artillery]
• [Image Robert Boyle]

4. The Scientific Revolution and the World of Thought

XXXIV. New Knowledge of Man and Society

1. Current of Skepticism
• [Primary Source Montaigne, On Cannibals]

2. The New Sense of Evidence
• [Primary Source Samuel Willard, A briefe account]
• [Image Witchcraft]

3. History and Historical Scholarship

4. The Questioning of Traditional Beliefs Richard Simon, Critical History of the Old Testament
• [Image Baruch Spinoza]
• [Primary Source John Locke, Letter on Toleration]
• [Primary Source John Locke, Reasonableness of Christianity]
• [Primary Source John Locke, Essay Concerning the Human Understanding]

XXXV. Political Theory: The School of Natural Law

• [Primary Source Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince]

1. Natural Right and Natural Law

1. Hobbes and Locke
• [Image Thomas Hobbes]
• [Primary Source Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, excerpt]
• [Primary Source Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, full text]
• [Primary Source John Locke, Two Treatises of Government]
• [Primary Source Bill of Rights, 1689]