ABSTRACT
Achievements in the natural sciences in the period from Nicholas Copernicus (14731543) to the death of Isaac Newton (1642-1727) changed our whole understanding of the nature of the universe and of the ways in which we may acquire knowledge of it. These innovations had unprecedented implications for philosophy, and in Britain John Locke, George Berkeley and David Hume, were only the most famous of those philosophers whose work in large part reflected the scientific developments and the issues that they generated.
