Scientific revolution

Warts and All: Francis Bacon’s Account of a Cure by “Sympathetic Magic”

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When Francis Bacon – a key figure of the Scientific Revolution in Britain – travelled France as an adolescent, he was puzzled by a number of strange experiences. As mentioned in my video on Bacon’s views on “natural magic”, one such experience involved his dream which seemed to predict the unexpected death of his father … Read more

Scientific Revolutions and the “Will to Believe”: The Birth of Heliocentrism. By Bob Rosenberg

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Bob Rosenberg received a PhD in History of Science and Technology from Johns Hopkins University. He spent two decades at Rutgers University on the staff of the Thomas A. Edison Papers, the last seven as director of the project. Since 2001 he has lived on the San Francisco Peninsula, working from 2005 to 2013 for … Read more