Mathematicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Accounts of the lives and works of mathematicians and scientists of this period, including
Blaise Pascal
,
Robert Hooke
, and
Christiaan Huygens
. (Maintained by David R. Wilkins, Trinity College, Dublin)
Antony van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723)
An overview of van Leeuwenhoek's life and work with a link to a similar page on
Robert Hooke
.
The Joseph Addison Page
A bibliography, links to online works, and more on Professor Roger Blackwell Bailey's LitWeb pages. (San Antonio College)
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The Microscope
Robert Hooke,
Micrographia
Antony van Leeuwenhoek, a Journal
The Telescope
Galileo Galilei,
The Phases of the Moon
James Thomson,
The Seasons
Scales of Values
Blaise Pascal,
Pensées
Margaret Cavendish,
A World in an Eare-Ring
Popularizing Science
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle,
Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds
Letter to
The Female Spectator
Reactions to the New Philosophy
Joseph Addison,
The Spectator
, Nos. 420 and 465
Christiaan Huygens,
Cosmotheoros
Stephen Duck,
On Mites
The Expanding Universe
The Solar System: The Orrery
The Milky Way: Thomas Wright,
An Original Theory . . . of the Universe
Laurence Sterne,
A Dream
J. J. Grandville,
A Juggler of Worlds