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The Western Experience, 8/e
Mortimer Chambers, University of California - Los Angeles
Barbara Hanawalt, Ohio State University
Theodore Rabb, Princeton University
Isser Woloch, Columbia University
Raymond Grew, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Culture and Society in the Age of the Scientific Revolution

Web Links

Scientific Revolution
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook09.html)

Comprehensive site sponsored by Fordham University.
Rene Descartes
(http://www.orst.edu/instruct/phl302/philosophers/descartes.html)

Biography, timeline.
The Art of Renaissance Science: "Galileo and Perspective"
(http://www.crs4.it/Ars/arshtml/arstoc.html)

Renaissance Art in context of the Scientific Revolution.
Gender and Family Issues

Galileo's Daughter, Maria Celeste
(http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo//MariaCeleste/)

Web site based on the many letters of Galileo's Daughter's letters.
Family in the Renaissance
(http://www.calvin.edu/academic/engl/346/proj/rozeboom/bjweb.htm)

"Family Life was vastly different in the Renaissance period than it is now. The structure of the family resulted in very specific responsibilities for the women, men, and children within the family. This site offers a brief overview of how those roles affected daily life."