Social Studies: Modern World History - Grade 9

Useful Websites:

Nicolaus Copernicus:
http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Science/Copernicus.htm 
http://www.bookrags.com/biography/nicolauscopernicus.html
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/retrograde/copernican.html 

Johannes Kepler:
http://kepler.nasa.gov/johannes/#anchor785589
http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/kepler.html 

Galileo:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06342b.htm 
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/galileo/About/galileobio.html 


The Scientific Revolution:
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ENLIGHT/SCIREV.HTM
http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/rhatch/pages/03-Sci-Rev/SCI-REV-Teaching/03sr-definition-concept.htm
http://www.historyguide.org/earlymod/lecture10c.html
http://www.anselm.edu/homepage/dbanach/sci.htm


The Scientific Method:
http://teacher.pas.rochester.edu/phy_labs/AppendixE/AppendixE.html
http://www2.selu.edu/Academics/Education/EDF600/Mod3/sld001.htm


Francis Bacon:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/francis-bacon/
http://www.iep.utm.edu/b/bacon.htm

René Descartes:
http://www.iep.utm.edu/d/descarte.htm
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Descartes/RouseBall/RB_Descartes.html
http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/desc.htm
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Descartes.html
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/Mind/Descartes.html

Isaac Newton:
http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/newtlife.html
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Newton/RouseBall/RB_Newton.html
http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/lectures/newton.html

Thomas Hobbes:
http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Philosophy/Hobbes.htm
http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/nature/hobbes-bio.html
http://www.iep.utm.edu/h/hobmoral.htm

John Locke:
http://www.island-of-freedom.com/LOCKE.HTM
http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Philosophy/Locke.htm#Intro
http://www.iep.utm.edu/l/locke.htm
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/


The Philosophes:
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ENLIGHT/PHIL.HTM 
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/lecture9a.html
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/lecture16a.html


Voltaire:
http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/voltvern.htm
http://www2.lucidcafe.com/lucidcafe/library/95nov/voltaire.html
http://www.visitvoltaire.com/voltaire_bio.htm


Montesquieu:
http://www.iun.edu/~hisdcl/h114_2002/enlightenment2.htm
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/montesquieu/


Jean Jacques Rousseau:
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96jun/rousseau.html
http://www.iep.utm.edu/r/rousseau.htm
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ENLIGHT/ROUSSEAU.HTM
http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-rous.htm

Mary Wollstonecraft:
- http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wwollstonecraft.htm
- http://www.infed.org/thinkers/wollstonecraft.htm 
 

Galileo’s Telescopes

Italian physicist and astronomer Galileo made major
discoveries about celestial objects in our solar system. In 1609, when he
heard that a spyglass had been invented in Holland, he began to
experiment with them. The telescopes pictured here were among
those he used. They are in the Museo della Scienza in Florence, Italy.

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