This course deals with a pivotal period in the history of philosophy and the history of science: the Scientific Revolution (ca. 1500–1700). This era witnessed the development of sciences such as astronomy, mechanics, and anatomy into something recognizably modern, as well as the general movement of experimental scientific activity from a culturally marginal to a central position. In addition to examining the historical and philosophical significance of these changes, we will consider the influence during this period of “pseudo” or “marginal” sciences (as they later came to be characterized) such as alchemy and astrology, which counted many of the major early modern scientists as their adepts. One goal here is to understand the historical and philosophical relations of such sciences to the more orthodox sciences during this period.