Originally published in 1529, the “Declamation on the Preeminence and Nobility of the Female Sex” argues that women are more than equal to men in ...
Continue Reading →Originally published in 1556, Agricola’s De Re Metallica was the first book on mining to be based on field research and observation — what today ...
Continue Reading →Giordano Bruno’s notorious public death in 1600, at the hands of the Inquisition in Rome, marked the transition from Renaissance philosophy to the Scientific Revolution ...
Continue Reading →The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610–1611, and thought to be one of the last plays that Shakespeare wrote alone. ...
Continue Reading →Sidereus Nuncius (usually Sidereal Messenger, also Starry Messenger or Sidereal Message) is a short astronomical treatise (or pamphlet) published in New Latin by Galileo Galilei ...
Continue Reading →De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (English translation: On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) is the seminal work on the heliocentric theory of the astronomer Nicolaus ...
Continue Reading →The Monadology (French: La Monadologie, 1714) is one of Gottfried Leibniz’s best known works of his later philosophy. It is a short text which presents, ...
Continue Reading →La Géométrie was published in 1637 as an appendix to Discours de la méthode (Discourse on the Method), written by René Descartes. In the ...
Continue Reading →Descartes’ The World offers the most comprehensive vision of the nature of the world since Aristotle, and is crucial for an understanding of his ...
Continue Reading →Momus is the most ambitious literary creation of Leon Battista Alberti, the famous humanist-scientist-artist and “universal man” of the Italian Renaissance. In this ...
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