HPS280 History of Science

LECTURE OUTLINES

This web page provides the outlines for the lectures as they are given. Not all details are to be found here, but the outlines should allow you to see what the structure of each day's lecture is, even if that structure was not clear while you were taking notes. Outlines will be posted one or two at a time, after the actual lecture is given.

Each lecture outline will be linked to the one following and the one preceeding it as they become available, as well as back to this index page and the HPS280 home page by a row of buttons at the top left of each page.

Index of Lecture Topics
Week of
1 (Jan. 4) Early Greek Science: From the Mythopoetic World View to the Early Philosophers
2 (Jan. 11) What is ‘Science’?: The Work of the Classicists: Plato & Aristotle
3 (Jan. 18) The Scientific Revolution of the 16th and 17th Centuries I: From Context & Perspective to Bacon & Galileo
4 (Jan. 25) The Scientific Revolution of the 16th and 17th Centuries II: Descartes and Newton

TEST 1 - In-class, Tuesday, February 2
5 (Feb. 1) The Chemical Revolution
6 (Feb. 8) Genetics and Evolution: Mendel and Darwin
FILMS IN-CLASS: "Patterns of Inheritance: Mendel" and "Darwin and Diversity"
(Feb. 15) READING WEEK
7 (Feb. 22) Science and Technology
8 (Mar. 1) Institutionalizing Science: Schools, Societies and Journals
9 (Mar. 8) History of Applied Science: Industrial Revolution to World War I

TEST 2 - In-class, Tuesday, March 16
10 (Mar. 15) Revolutions in Modern Physics: Einstein
11 (Mar. 22) Science and Politics: World War II
12 (Mar. 29) Molecular Biology: From the Discovery of DNA to the Human Genome Project
13 (Apr. 5) Toward the 21st Century: Science and Society


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