The Newtonian Cosmos
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The Newtonian Cosmos
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Abstract
The English physicist Isaac Newton launched a new and powerful scientific synthesis that would dominate Western science until it eventually became obsolete with the rise of relativity and quantum theory at the dawn of the twentieth century. It also had a wider cultural effect on the Enlightenment. The basic principles of Newtonianism were set forth in Newton’s Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1687).
Contents
- The Renaissance: An Overview
- Renaissance Art and Science
- Church Corruption
- The Great Plague
- Christian Humanism
- Rise of National Monarchies
- Dante and the Italian Communes
- Church Corruption and the Conciliar Movement
- Medieval and Renaissance Art and Architecture
- The Copernican Revolution
- The Newtonian Cosmos
- Roger Bacon: “On Experimental Science”
- Giovanni Boccaccio: The Decameron
- Petrarch: Letter to Lapo de Castiglionchio
- Petrarch: Letter to Francesco Nelli
- Petrus Paulus Vergerius: “Concerning Liberal Studies”
- Christine de Pisan: The Treasure of the City of Ladies
- Leon Alberti : On Painting
- Vespasiano da Bisticci: Portrait of Cosimo de’ Medici
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Oration on the Dignity of Man
- The Croyland Chronicle: Battle of Bosworth Field
- Surrender Treaty of the Kingdom of Granada
- Alhambra Decree
- Privileges and Prerogatives Granted by Their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus
- Christopher Columbus: Letter to Raphael Sanxis on the Discovery of America
- A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama
- Desiderius Erasmus: The Praise of Folly
- Niccoló Machiavelli: The Prince
- Nicolaus Copernicus: On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres
- Giorgio Vasari: “Leonardo da Vinci, Florentine Painter and Sculptor”
- Michel de Montaigne: “Of the Education of Children”
- Galileo Galilei: Starry Messenger
- Letter of Cardinal Bellarmine to Paolo Antonio Foscarini concerning Galileo’s Theories
- Isaac Newton: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy