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The New Science

Class Outline on Bacon and Newton

Francis Bacon

Sir Francis Bacon: biography and links to online texts

Voice of the Shuttle: English Literature Some links to Bacon sites, including discussions of whether Bacon authored works attributed to Shakespeare.

Descartes

Class Outline

Descartes site focuses on Descartes's mathematical contributions

References for Descartes a bibliography

Rene Descartes and the Legacy of Mind/Body Dualism

Mind and Machines: Behaviorism,Dualism,and Beyond by James H. Fetzer. A discussion of Caretesian dualism and Skinner's behaviorism.

Philosopher All Stars: Descartes

Biography of Descartes

Mind and Body: Descartes to William James

Discourse on Method

Meditations

Galileo

Galileo: Biography

Newton

Newtonia at The Newton Institute very nice set of references, from biography to maps of locations associated with Newton.

Newton: Biography from Men of Mathematics

The Life,Times and Achievements of Sir Isacc Newton from The World's 100 Greatest people audiocassette collection. You can read and listen to this text.

Newton and Microgravity

Newton: Hyperlinked Biography fromEric's Treasure Trove of Scientific Biographies.

General Resources

Anthony van Leeuwenhoek

Museum of the History of Science: Oxford

Images, online exhibits and loads of other information

Jesuits and the Sciences

The Royal Society

Eric's Treasure Trove of Scientific Biography

General Astronomy Information fromThe Royal Greenwich Observatory

WWW History of Science and Medicine

Royal Greenwich Observatory

History and Philosophy of Western Astronomy

History of Science and Ideas

Contains a number of interesting links to explore

Gottfried Leibniz

Nasa: The Galileo Project

Explore a revolutionary development in modern science. Follow the Galileo mission to Jupiter.