User talk:SteveMcCluskey/Scientific Revolution

Proposed Outline

• Introduction

1. Significance of the "Revolution"
2. Ancient and medieval background
3. Transformational developments and their reception
   1. Copernicus's De revolutionibus
   2. Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica
4. New Approaches to Nature
   1. The Mechanical Philosophy
   2. The Chemical Philosophy
   3. Empiricism
   4. Mathematization
5. Subsequent Developments
   1. The New Astronomy
      1. Kepler
      2. Brahe
      3. Galileo
   2. The New Physics
      1. Galileo
      2. Newton's Principia
6. Institutional changes
   1. The changing role of patronage
   2. Networks of communication
      1. Printing
   3. Scientific societies

--SteveMcCluskey 15:08, 30 August 2006 (UTC)