Early Modern Science

MATERIALS

Robert Boyle, A Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural Things.

Georges Canguilhem, “Machine and organism.”

Robert A. Hatch's webpage on the Scientific Revolution

Jessica Riskin, “The Defecating Duck; or, The Ambiguous Origins of Artificial Life.” Critical Inquiry Summer 2003, Vol. 29, No. 4: 599-633

Robert Schofield, "An Evolutionary Taxonomy of Eighteenth-Century Newtonianisms," Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, vol. 7 (1978)

Justin Steinberg, "Spinoza on Teleology" (ms.)

 

 

David Gilad, Newton in the market place.

—, Cunningham and Williams, De-Centering the 'Big Picture': "The Origins of Modern Science" and the Modern Origins of Science.

John Schuster, "The Scientific Revolution: an introduction to the history and philosophy of science," UNSW, can be found on John’s profile page.

Charles Wolfe, David Norton on empiricism.

—, On Reill Vitalizing Nature.

Research on the Scientific Revolution by members of the EMS Group

Adam Smith's History of Astronomy (1795)

John Toland, Letters to Serena (1704)

F.M.A. de Voltaire, Letters Concerning the English Nation, or Lettres Philosophiques, 1733/1778

 

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