COURSE MATERIALS

PRIMARY SOURCES

The CDC courses have as their main aim to encourage and facilitate the acess to primary sources. All courses will discuss literature that is less discussed or less available or even completely unknown in Romania.

This is an informative list of bibliographical sources and materials, as well as internet sites that might be of some help. It is designed to supplement the bibliography you will receive at course. Students are kindly encouraged to ask for the materials they need. Most of the materials indicated in the bibliographies can be found at the library of FME centre, or at New Europe College library.

IMPORTANT SITES:

Dictionary of the history of ideas
Gallica: bibliotheque nationale de la France
The Electronic Enlightenment
Schoenberg centre for electronic texts and images
The Archimede project
Electronic texts in philosophy (getting better and better every week)
Renascence Editions
Seventeenth century net.net
Catalogue of the scientific community in 16th and 17th centuries
CERES – Cambridge English Renaissance Electronic Service
Early Modern Resources

COURSES ON RELATED SUBJECTS

prof. Robert A. Hatch course on history of science and many interesting materials here
prof. Michael Mahoney course on the origins of modern science (Princeton)
A course on history and philosophy of science at Kyoto University, centered upon Leibniz-Clarke correspondence here

IMPORTANT LINKS:

Francis Bacon: an interesting page with informations, primary texts and secondary literature (not always 100% creditable)
http://www.luminarium.org/
Some of Bacon\’s major texts here.

See the bibliography on Bacon on the page Individual Courses.

Descartes: texts in english and the Meditations in original and translation.

Leibniz: an interesting page with some primary texts here, Leibniziana (including CFP, who is who and interesting secondary references)

Isaac Newton:
Newton Project – a large and very successful project of digitizing Newton\’s manuscripts from Cambridge University Library. Its focus is upon theological manuscripts, but contains a large section of scientific manuscripts, books about Newton\’s philosophy written by his contemporaries. The volume of the digitized materials is growing every week.
Newton\’s Alchemy – a very interesting site with primary and secondary materials, including course materials and chemical experiences

Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle – a very good page containing primary and secondary materials, bibliography, CFP and what\’s new in Boyle\’s studies

History of Science Society
History of Science – Internet resources
Internet History of Science Sourcebook

Cosmology, the new and the old world picture:
An interesting site with plenty of images here

A good starting point, comprehensive informations, some primary sources as well.

An extremely good resources of primary texts on all aspects of Protestantism and the English.

An interesting bibliography, primary and secondary sources of utopian thought here

A very large library of utopian thought on Gallica, Dosier Utopie.