Charles Darwin (1809-1882): The Voyage of the Beagle, 1845
Charles Darwin (1809-1882): On the Origin of Species, 1859
Charles Darwin (1809-1882): The Descent of Man, 1871, excerpts
Charles Darwin (1809-1882): The Descent of Man, 1871
Theory and Methods of Science
Bernardino Telesio (1509–1588): from On the Nature of Things According to Proper Principles, 1565
Francis Bacon (1561-1626): from First Book of Aphorisms
Francis
Bacon (1561-1626): Preface to
the Novum Organum [At
Francis Bacon (1561-1626): The New Atlantis, 1626
Francis
Bacon (1561-1626): Various
Texts
Ben Jonson (1573-1625): On Lord Francis Bacon, 1625
Voltaire (1694-1778): On Francis Bacon, from Letters on the English or Lettres Philosophiques, c. 1778
Réne Descartes (1596-1650): Discourse on Method, 1637
Réne Descartes (1596-1650): Discourse on Method, 1637
Réne Descartes (1596-1650): Méditations, 1641
Astronomy and Physics
Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543): Dedication of The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies, 1543
Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543): The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies, 1543
Tycho Brahe (1546-1601): Life
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630): Laws of Planetary Motion
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642): Letter to the Duchess Christina of Tuscany, 1615
Galileo's Pendulum Experiments - a modern recreation [At Rice]
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727): Optics
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727): Three Laws of Motion, in Latin [At The Latin Library]
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727): Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727): Principia: Book Two. Lemma II.
Cambridge in the Time of Newton
Medicine
Andreas Vesalius (1514-64): De humani corporis fabrica, 1543
Vesalius Image Archive [At Vesalium.com]
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
Edward Jenner (1749-1823): Three Original Publications On Vaccination Against Smallpox, 1798
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894): Contagiousness Of Puerperal Fever, 1843
Joseph Lister (1827-1912): Antiseptic Principle Of The Practice of Surgery, 1867
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895): Germ Theory and Its Applications to Medicine and Surgery, 1878
Louis Pasteur (1822-1894): Extension of The Germ Theory, 1880
H.C. Ernst: Extension of The Germ Theory, 1880 [At this Site]
Bits
Index
of Forbidden Books
Part of Bonfire
of Liberties an exhibition of banned books.
Scientific Societies
Dr. John Wallis: The Origin of The Royal Society, 1645-1662
Voltaire (1694-1778): On The Royal Society And Other Academies from Letters on the English or Lettres Philosophiques, c. 1778
I love the title "On the Nature of Things According to Proper Principles." I looking forward to speaking this way as I get older. But it also has a promising beginning to its text: "Those before us pored over the arrangement of the world and the nature of things contained in it. But although they were seen to explore it with great and constant care, they did not actually examine it. For how could the world be regarded as known by people whose writings all disagree with what is observed and are even self-contradictory?"
Marvelous.
Posted by: Jeff | 09 January 2010 at 06:19 PM
More marvelous ... the caveat at the end of the introduction. What a reminder of what our world could be again: "We do not, however, assert and contend, if any of what we posit does not comply with the sacred scriptures of the Catholic Church, that it should be held and not thoroughly rejected. For not only any human reasoning, but also the sense itself must be subject to the scriptures; if it does not agree with them, sense itself must assuredly be denied."
Posted by: Jeff | 09 January 2010 at 06:30 PM
hanks for picking out the poetry in a mass-y melange of morbid meat. The end of the intro, with trickey little negative twists, is perfectly sniffy!
Posted by: John Ptak | 09 January 2010 at 09:12 PM