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Week 1: Introduction |
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Introductory Lecture |
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Week 2: Beginnings |
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"What is Science?" |
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The Presocratics |
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Week 3: The World According to Plato and Aristotle |
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Plato's World |
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Aristotle's Physics |
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| Week 4: Aristotle's Biology |
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Aristotle and Hippocrates on Biology and Medicine |
First Paper Due |
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Week 5: Ancient Mathematics, Astronomy, and Engineering |
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Ptolemy and Euclid |
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Galen and Alexandrian Engineers |
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Week 6: Science in the Middle Ages |
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Arabic Science |
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Medieval European Universities |
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Week 7: Medieval Technology |
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Medieval Technology |
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Week 8: The European Renaissance |
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No lecture |
In-class Midterm Exam |
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Patronage, Alchemy, and Humanism |
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Week 9: Revolutions in the Body and in the Stars |
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Vesalius and Anatomy |
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The Copernican Revolution |
Second Paper Due |
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Week 10: Observatories and Ellipses |
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Tycho Brahe and the New Astronomy |
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Kepler: Mysticism and Mars |
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Week 11: Galileo: Astronomy, and the Church |
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Interpreting Scripture and the Heavens |
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Week 12: Galileo's Physics and Bacon's Collecting |
| 19 |
Galileo's Physics |
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Bacon and the Culture of Collecting |
Second Paper Revision Due |
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Week 13: Descartes's New Methods for the New Sciences |
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Descartes's Mechanical Philosophy |
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Week 14: Newton and Newtonianism |
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Newton's Dynamics and Gravitation |
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Newton's Optics and the Culture of Newtonianism |
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| Week 15: Laboratories, Societies, and Gentlemen |
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England's Royal Society |
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No lecture |
Final Paper Due |
