• Baroque
• Scientific Revolution
• Copernicus, Concerning the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres (1543)
• Tycho Brahe
• Johannes Kepler; Three Laws of  Celestial Motion (1609, 1619)
• Galileo, The Starry Messenger (1610)
• Descartes, Discourse on Method (1637) – Cogito, ergo sum
• Vesalius, On the Fabric of the Human Body (1543)
• William Harvey, On the Movement of the Heart and Blood (1638)
• Francis Bacon, Novum Organum (1620)
• Royal Society of London (1660)

England:

• William Shakespeare
• Christopher Marlow

Spain:

• El Greco
• Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605, 1615)
• Diego Velázquez

The Netherlands:

• Frans Hals
• Rembrandt
• Jan Vermeer
• Peter-Paul Rubens
• Anthony van Dyck
• Hugo Grotius (natural law)

Italy:

• Bernini, Ecstasy of St. Theresa (1640s) [Schama video!]

France:

• Montaigne, Essais

Larger Questions to consider:

How might it be argued that the Scientific Revolution was a triumph of science over philosophy and aesthetics?