Scientific Revolution Isaac

Principe, Lawrence M. "The alchemies of Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton alternative approaches and divergent deployments." In Rethinking the scientific revolution, ed. Margaret J. Osier, 201-220. Cambridge Cambridge Univ P, 2000. 

Christianson, Gale E. Isaac Newton and the scientific revolution. Oxford OUP, 1996. 

The Industrial Revolution, which was natural resource- and cheap labor-dependent, was ignited in the midst of an ongoing scientific revolution, which started over two centuries earlier with Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543), Galileo Galilei (1564—1642), Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), Rene Descartes (1596-1650) and many others, all the way to Isaac Newton (1642-1727) and his great Principia published in 1687, and beyond—a revolution that continues unabated to these very days. 

Bruce T. Moran s Distilling Knowledge Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution (2005) has greatly expanded the place of alchemy in the history of science. Stanton J. Linden s The Alchemy Reader From Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton (2003) offers the reader the original material with some helpful introductions. 

The Alchemies of Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton. In Rethinking the Scientific Revolution, ed. Margaret Osler. Cambridge, England Cambridge University Press, pp. 201-220. 

Sir Isaac Newton, 1642-1727, English physicist and mathematician at Cambridge University 1669-1701, the central figure of the scientific revolution of the Vf century. Most well known for his exploration of light (Opticks, 1704), forces, gravity and motion (Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, 1687), and mathematics (Arithmetica Universalis, 1707). 

Aughton, Peter. Newton s Apple Isaac Newton and the English Scientific Revolution. London Weidenfeld Nicolson, 2003. 

I consider engineering and technology to go hand-in-hand. The former is the application of the natural sciences in such a way as to produce the latter. Without modem engineering there would be no modem technology, and both depend on the Scientific Revolution that was stimulated and defended by such thinkers as Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton, and Rene Descartes. 

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