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- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP)The SEP was designed so that each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and substantive updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished Editorial Board before they are made public. Consequently, our dynamic reference work maintains academic standards while evolving and adapting in response to new research.
Portrait of Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle by Louis Galloche, 1723
Attribution: Louis Galloche, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Frontispiece to On the Nature of Things by Lucretius, copied by Girolamo di Matteo de Tauris for Pope Sixtus IV, Italy, 1483
Attribution: In Latin, Copied by Girolamo di Matteo de Tauris for Sixtus IV, Italy, 1483, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Vatican), Vat. lat. 1569 fol. 1 recto medbio04 NAN.13
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle by Peter Lely, 1665
Attribution: Peter Lely, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Book: On the Nature of Things
Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) lived ca. 99-ca. 55 BCE, but the details of his career are unknown. He is the author of the great didactic poem in hexameters, De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things). In six books compounded of solid reasoning, brilliant imagination, and noble poetry, he expounds the scientific theories of the Greek philosopher Epicurus, with the aim of dispelling fear of the gods and fear of death and so enabling man to attain peace of mind and happiness.
Galileo shows the Medicean planets (Galilean moons) to the Allegories of Optics, Astronomy and Mathematics, 1656
Attribution: Opere by Galileo Galilei, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ebook: Renaissance Utopias and the Problem of History
In her view, these early modern utopian constructions of history relate very closely to and impinge upon the narrative structures of history assumed by critical theory today.
Copernican astronomical chart from Andreas Cellarius' Planisphaerium Copernicanum Sive Systema Universi Totius Creati Ex Hypothesi Copernicana In Plano Exhibitum
Attribution: Andreas Cellarius, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Microscope manufactured by Christopher Cock of London for Robert Hooke. Hooke is believed to have used this microscope for the observations that formed the basis of his book Micrographia
Attribution: Courtesy Billings Microscope Collection, National Museum, Wikimedia Commons
