History of Science OnlineCourse Info: HSCI 3013 - section 995 - Fall 2008 |
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Semester Schedule
| Week | Calendar | Unit | Topics & sources will include... |
| 0 | Aug 18 - Sept 1 | Beginnings: Orientation activities | Syllabus,
online orientation, technical issues and online resources. |
| 1 | Aug 25 - Sept 1 | Stonehenge; Shape of the Earth | What
is history of science? Stonehenge; the Shape of the Earth. |
| Ancient Science | |||
| 2 | Sept 2 - 8 | Ancient Near East | Near East Astronomy from antiquity through the Roman era |
| 3 | Sept 9 - 15 | Ancient Egypt, Aegean | Ancient Egypt & Presocratic natural philosophy |
| 4 | Sept 16 - 22 | Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle | Plato, Aristotle |
| 5 | Sept 23 - 29 | Hellenistic science | Euclid, Archimedes, Erasistratos, Eratosthenes, Hipparchos, et al. |
| 6 | Sept 30 - Oct 6 | Roman science | Lucretius, Cicero, Ptolemy, Galen, Hypatia, Pliny, Bede, Macrobius, et al. |
| Medieval and Islamic science | |||
| 7 | Oct 7 - 13 | Islamic, Indian and Chinese science | Ibn Sina, al-Ghazzali, al-Hazen, ibn Rushd, al-Tusi, ash-Shirazi, et al. |
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Oct 14 - 20 |
Medieval & Islamic science & technology, 6th - 13th centuries | Hildegard of Bingen, Abelard and Heloise, Maimonides, Aquinas, Grosseteste, Albertus Magnus, Universities |
| 9 | Oct 21 - 27 | 14th century science | Buridan, Oresme, Ockham, Theodoric of Freiberg |
| 10 | Oct 28 - Nov 3 | 15th century science | Printing Revolution, Hermeticism, Leonardo da Vinci |
| Early Modern science | |||
| 11 | Nov 4 - 10 | 16th Century Natural History & Medicine | Paracelsus, Vesalius, Fuchs, Gerard, Aldrovandi, Hernandez |
| 12 | Nov 11 - 17 | 16th Century Astronomy | Copernicus, Tycho, Kepler, Gilbert, Sophie Brahe |
| 13 | Nov 18 - Dec 1 | 17th Century: Galileo | Galileo, Grand Duchess Christina, Sister Maria Celeste |
Thanksgiving
vacation, Nov 21-25 |
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| 14 | Dec 2 - Dec 8 | 17th century: mechanistic science | Bacon,
Descartes, Harvey, Boyle, Royal Society of London Maria Cunitz, Maria Merian |
| 15 | Dec 9 - 14 | 17th Century: Newtonian synthesis | Introducing Isaac Newton |
Finals week: Dec 15-19. All assignments due by 11:59 p.m. on Dec 15; Web Project substitutes for Final Exam |
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HSCI 3013. History
of Science to 17th century
Many thanks to Mythology
and Folklore and other online courses developed by Laura Gibbs.
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