The Whig Interpretation of History

·         Whigs (progressive) vs. Tories (reactionary)

·         Herbert Butterfield, The Whig Interpretation of History, London, 1931. (This is the actual book, on line as an e-book.)

 

·         Scholasticism

·         William of Ockham The principle of parsimony.

·         Padua in XV, XVI

·         Andreas Vesalius, De Fabrica, 1543

·         Fabricius, Anatomical Theatre, 1595

·         William Harvey, De Motu Cordis, 1628 (Two links here: one about Harvey; the other is an e-book version of On the Motion of the Heart and Blood.)

 

In the Scientific Revolution

·         Francis Bacon (a site on Bacon, with sound effects)

·         Bacon’s Idols (ways of being misled by our minds and thoughts)

The Magical Viewpoint

 

In antiquity:

·         Hermes Trismegistus

 

In the Middle Ages and Renaissance

·         Neoplatonism

·         Hermeticism

·         Alchemy More than you want to know.

·         Astrology

 

In the Scientific Revolution:

·         Giordano Bruno

·         William Gilbert, On the Magnet, More than you want to know.

·         Paracelsus

 

In Antiquity:

·         Archimedes – More than you want to know.

 

In the Scientific Revolution

·         Niccolo Tartaglia

 

·         Blaise Pascal – atmospheric pressure

 

·         Robert Boyle, measurement in chemistry

 

·         The Royal Society of London