User talk:SteveMcCluskey/Scientific Revolution

Proposed Outline

 * Introduction
 * 1) Significance of the "Revolution"
 * 2) Ancient and medieval background
 * 3) Transformational developments and their reception
 * 4) Copernicus's De revolutionibus
 * 5) Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica
 * 6) New Approaches to Nature
 * 7) The Mechanical Philosophy
 * 8) The Chemical Philosophy
 * 9) Empiricism
 * 10) Mathematization
 * 11) Subsequent Developments
 * 12) The New Astronomy
 * 13) Kepler
 * 14) Brahe
 * 15) Galileo
 * 16) The New Physics
 * 17) Galileo
 * 18) Newton's Principia
 * 19) Institutional changes
 * 20) The changing role of patronage
 * 21) Networks of communication
 * 22) Printing
 * 23) Scientific societies

--SteveMcCluskey 15:08, 30 August 2006 (UTC)