Class 2 (8/28)
Setting the stage
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Developments in content
Physical sciences
Celestial mechanics
Terrestrial mechanics
The mechanical philosophy
A Newtonian model for science
Sciences of life
The classificatory impulse
Observing forms and structures
Note: contemporary categories
Methodologies for science
Science as process and method
Five key aspects
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| Scientific Revolution (ca. 1500-1750)
Isaac Newton (1642-1727) the mechanical philosophy taxonomy great chain of being Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) natural history, natural historian or naturalist natural philosophy, natural philosopher Francis Bacon (1561-1626) |
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) orrery mechanics optic(k)s compound microscope Robert Hooke (1635-1703) William Harvey (1578-1637) René Descartes (1596-1650) |