The Transformation of the World, 1650-1720 (Part III: The Great Synthesis, 1658-1720)
Tuesday, November 14, 2017, in the Linda Hall Library Auditorium. Presented by Dr. William B. Ashworth, Jr., Associate Professor of History at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and Consultant for the History of Science at the Linda Hall Library. About the course: Our understanding of the world—the way it works, and the way we should examine that world—underwent a profound transformation in the period between 1650 and 1720. The transformation was so drastic that we often call this a Scientific Revolution—the Scientific Revolution. The course examines the major figures of this period, including Robert Boyle, Christiaan Huygens, and Isaac Newton, and many of the noteworthy events, such as the acceptance of a heliocentric cosmos, the invention of the pendulum clock, the discovery of the microscopic world, and the hypothesis of universal gravitation.
