The Scientific Revolution
- Background on Ancient Greek Astronomy
- Francis Bacon, Life and Works
- The Invention of the Telescope
- Galileo and the Telescope
- Galileo, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, 1615 (excerpt)
- Galileo, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, 1632 (excerpt)
- Galileo, Dialogue Concerning Two New Sciences
- Galileo on Acceleration
- Trial of Galileo
- Galileo's Battle for the Heavens (website for NOVA program on PBS)
- Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
- Descartes' Physics
- Thomas Hobbes, Life and Works
- Isaac Newton, Life and Works