The Scientific Revolution

17th-18th c.

Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, and Geology

Astronomia Nova

Johannes Kepler, 1609

Phases of Venusand Other Planets

Galileo Galilei, 1610

History and Demonstrations Concerning Sunspots and Their Properties

Galileo Galilei, 1613

One of Galileo’s Drawings of Sunspots

Galileo Showing the Doge of Venice How to Use the TelescopeGiuseppe Bertini, 1858

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

New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall Touching the Spring of the Air

Robert Boyle, 1660

Boyle’s Air Pump

The Subterranean World

Athanasius Kircher, 1665

Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

Isaac Newton, 1687

Synopsis of the Astronomyof Comets

Edmond Halley, 1705

Halley’s Comet in 1910

Anatomy, Biology, and Medicine

On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals

William Harvey, 1628

The Discourse on Method

René Descartes, 1637

Micrographia

Robert Hooke, 1665

Hooke’s Drawing of a Louse

Hooke’s Drawing of a Flea

Tractatus de Corde

Richard Lower, 1669

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

An Experiment on a Bird in the Air PumpJoseph Wright, 1768

The Surgeon Dentist

Pierre Fauchard, 1728

Dental Surgery Instruments

Dentist’s Drill

The Classification of Knowledge

Systema Naturae

Carl Linnaeus, 1735

L’Encyclopédie

Denis Diderot, 1751-72

The Classical Orders

The Art of Engraving

Pen Nibs

Camera Obscura

Corsets

Knee Breeches

A Pin-Making Factory