The course addresses the basic historical, historiographical and philosophical questions raised by the so-called scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It deals with figures like Nicolas Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke and covers diverse aspects of the revolution from mathematics, natural philosophy, astronomy and medicine.

This historical course is an introduction to the major events that took place during the so-called 'Scientific Revolution' in the pre-modern and modern times. It discusses the relevance and meaning of the process, as well as raising other historiographical questions in connection with it.