The Scientific Revolution and the
Enlightenment
Pope Gregory XIII, 1572. Engraving
by Domenico Tibaldi after Bartolomeo
Passarotti. London, British Museum.
Rembrandt (1606-1669), Dr Tulp’s Anatomy Lesson, 1632.
The Hague, Mauritshuis.
Siege of the city of Hulst, 1645.
Frederick Henry.
The Scientific Method
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642).
Portrait by Ottavio Leoni,
1624. Florence, Biblioteca
Marucelliana.
Galileo's sunspot drawings, 2 June-8 July 1612. Istoria e Dimostrazioni Intorno Alle Macchie
Solari e Loro Accidenti Rome, 1613. Click on the image for an animationfrom the Galileo
Project.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626).
Portrait of by Frans Pourbus, 1617.
Warsaw, Palace on the Water.
René Descartes (1596-1650).
Portrait by Frans Hals, ca 1649.
Paris, Louvre.
Nicolaus Copernicus (14731543). Portrait of 1580
portrait. Toruń Old Town City
Hall.
Diagram of the solar system in
De revolutionibus orbium
coelestium, 1543.
Isaac Newton (1642OS 20 March 1726 /
NS 31 March 1727).
Portrait by Godfrey
Kneller, 1689.
Farleigh Hungerford,
Farleigh House.
Page of Newton’s
notebook (Cambridge
Digital Library)
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642).
Portrait by Ottavio Leoni,
1624. Florence, Biblioteca
Marucelliana.
The Salon of Madame Geoffin. Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier, 1755. Paris,
Châteaux de Malmaison et Bois-Préeau. 1: Montesquieu (1689-1755), 2: Rousseau
(1712-1778), 3: Diderot (1713-1784), 4: Madame Geoffrin (1699-1777), 5: bust of
Voltaire (1694-1778).
Joseph II plowing the field near Slawikowitz in rural southern Moravia on 19 August
1769. Anonymous engraving, 1799.
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804).