DIVISION FIVE THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

DIVISION FIVE THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY Ⅰ. General Introduction Ⅱ. Science Ⅲ. Philosophy, Politics and Literature in England Ⅳ. Descartes; French Classicism Ⅴ. Art

Science 1. From Copernicus to Kepler 2. Galileo Galilei 3. Sir Isaac Newton 4. Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz 5. Invention of New Instruments 6. Two Merits Shared by the Great Scientists of the 17th century

Kepler

Galileo Galilei A replica of the earliest surviving telescope attributed to Galileo Galilei, on display at the Griffith Observatory It was on this page that Galileo first noted an observation of the moons of Jupiter. This observation upset the notion that all celestial bodies must revolve around the Earth. Galileo published a full description in Sidereus Nuncius in March 1610

Cristiano Banti's 1857 painting Galileo facing the Roman Inquisition Tomb of Galileo Galilei, Santa Croce

Sir Isaac Newton Newton's own copy of his Principia, with hand-written corrections for the second edition. A replica of Newton's 6-inch (150 mm) reflecting telescope of 1672 for the Royal Society.

A reputed descendant of Newton's apple tree, found in the Instituto Balseiro library garden. A reputed descendant of Newton's apple tree, found in the Botanic Gardens in Cambridge. Newton's grave in Westminster Abbey

Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz

Francis Bacon Memorial to Francis Bacon, in the chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge

Thomas Hobbes Frontispiece of Leviathan Frontispiece from De Cive (1642)

a. Hobbes’s Materialist Views b. The Natural State of War c. The Laws of Nature d. The Theory of the Social Contrast

John Locke a. Locke’s Materialist Views b. Locke’s Political Philosophy c. The Social Contract

John Milton

Descartes; French Classicism 1. René Descartes 2. French Classicism

René Descartes a. The Method of Cartesian Doubt b. Descartes’s Theory of Knowledge c. Innate Ideas d. Descartes’s Dualism

French Classicism a. Pierre Corneille b. Jean Racine c. Molière

Art 1. Baroque Art 2. Dutch Protestant Art Van Rijn Rembrandt 3. Art and Architecture in France 4. Music

Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini The Ecstasy of St. Theresa

Michelangelo Caravaggio The Calling of St. Matthew The beam of light, which enters the picture from the direction of a real window, expresses in the blink of an eye the conversion of St Matthew, the hinge on which his destiny will turn, with no flying angels, parting clouds or other artifacts. The Cardsharps

Francesco Borromini Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza, courtyard and façade. Façade of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane.

Peter Paul Rubens Queen of France The rising of the Cross

Landing in Marseillies

Diego Velázquez The Maids of Honor (1656)

Van Rijn Rembrandt The Polish Rider - A Lisowczyk on horseback. The subject of much discussion. It is possible that the person depicted was Grand Chancellor of Lithuania, Marcjan Aleksander Ogiński (1632-1690)

Building of Samson

DIVISION FIVE THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

DIVISION FIVE THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

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ENGLAND’S COLONIAL EXPERIMENTS: THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

Opera in the Late Seventeenth Century

Seventeenth-Century British Literature

The Late Seventeenth Century

The Early Seventeenth Century

American Life in the Seventeenth Century

Seventeenth Century Propaganda

The Early Seventeenth Century

Seventeenth-Century England

American Life in the Seventeenth Century

Colonial Life in the Seventeenth Century

History of mathematics – the seventeenth century

Seventeenth Century Anglo-American Poetry

American Life in the Seventeenth Century

Seventeenth-Century Britain and Ireland

Seventeenth-Century American Literature

The Seventeenth Century

The Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century

The Seventeenth Century

Colonizing a Continent in the Seventeenth Century

Seventeenth Century Quakerism: Wives of the Unconvinced