NY State Curriculum Notes
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Nicolaus Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Tycho Brahe: Life A web page with illustrations of Brahe's observations and system.
Johannes Kepler: Laws of Planetary MotionA web page illustrating the laws in diagrams
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642): Letter to the Duchess Christina of Tuscany with Reading Guide
Galileo's Pendulum Experiments - a modern recreation
Cardinal Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621): Letter on Galileo's Theories, 1615
Cardinal Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621): Information
Index of Forbidden Books, Some listed authors, 1559-1964.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626): from First Book of Aphorisms
Francis Bacon (1561-1626): The New Atlantis, 1627
Voltaire (1694-1778): On Francis Bacon, from Letters on the English or Lettres Philosophiques, c. 1778
Ben Jonson (1573-1625): On Lord Francis Bacon, 1625
Réne Descartes (1596-1650): Discourse on Method, 1637, extracts
Réne Descartes (1596-1650): Méditations, 1641
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727): Optics, excerpts On atomic theory and induction.
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Isaac Newton (1642-1727): Mathematical
Principles of Natural Philosophy, excerpts
On the rules of reasoning in philosophy.
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727): Three Laws of Motion, in Latin [At GMU]
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727): Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727): Principia: Book Two. Lemma II.
Voltaire (1694-1778): Letters on Newton, from the Letters on the English or Lettres Philosophiques, c. 1778
Joseph Priestley: The Discovery of Oxygen, 1776
Andreas Vesalius (1514-64): De humani corporis fabrica
William Harvey (1578-1657): On The Motion of The Heart And Blood In Animals, 1628
William Harvey (1578-1657): On the Motion of the Heart, excerpts