DIVISION FIVE DIVISION FIVE THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURYTHE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

Ⅰ. General Introduction

Ⅱ. Science

Ⅲ. Philosophy, Politics and Literature in England

Ⅳ. Descartes; French Classicism

Ⅴ. Art

ScienceScience 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

KeplerKepler

Galileo Galilei

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

A replica of the earliest surviving telescope attributed to Galileo Galilei, on display at the Griffith Observatory

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

Sir Isaac Newton

A replica of Newton's 6-inch (150 mm) reflecting telescope of 1672 for the

Royal Society.

Newton's own copy of his Principia, with hand-written corrections for the second edition.

A reputed descendant of Newton's apple tree, found in the Botanic

Gardens in Cambridge.

A reputed descendant of Newton's apple tree, found in the Instituto

Balseiro library garden. Newton's grave in Westminster Abbey

Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz

Francis BaconFrancis Bacon

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

Thomas Hobbes

Frontispiece from De Cive (1642) Frontispiece of Leviathan

a. Hobbes’s Materialist Views

b. The Natural State of War

c. The Laws of Nature

d. The Theory of the Social Contrast

John LockeJohn Locke

a. Locke’s Materialist Views

b. Locke’s Political Philosophy

c. The Social Contract

John Milton

Descartes; French ClassicismDescartes; French Classicism

1. René Descartes

2. French Classicism

René DescartesRené Descartes

a. The Method of Cartesian Doubt

b. Descartes’s Theory of Knowledge

c. Innate Ideas

d. Descartes’s Dualism

French ClassicismFrench Classicism

a. Pierre Corneille

b. Jean Racine

c. Molière

Art Art

1. Baroque Art

2. Dutch Protestant Art

Van Rijn Rembrandt

3. Art and Architecture in France

4. Music

Giovanni Lorenzo BerniniGiovanni Lorenzo Bernini

The Ecstasy of St. Theresa

Michelangelo Caravaggio

The CardsharpsThe 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.

Francesco Borromini

Façade of San Carlo alle

Quattro Fontane.

Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza,

courtyard and façade.

Peter Paul Rubens

The rising of the CrossQueen of France

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