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HHS 130-B: A History of Science and Technology: HoST Tues-Wed-Thurs: 10:00–10:50 Babbio 304 |
Daniel Newsome Presiding Office Hours by Request Email me: host@mifami.org |
Newsome – Digital Collage
[Consisting primarily of William Blake's "Ancient
of Days" (ca. 1800) and a geocentric model of the cosmos.]
Class Policies– HoST– Fall – 2011
Updated: 12/13/11 10:54 PM
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Week |
Dates |
Topic |
Assignment
Links and Other Information |
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0 |
8/30-9/1 |
Intro and Creation |
Assignment 0: Intro, Nuts/Bolts, Foxes, and Genesis |
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1 |
9/6-9/8 |
Babylonian Creation of Cosmos |
Assignment 1: Enuma elish
and the "comic book." McC&D:
pp. 31-42 and 46-54. |
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2 |
9/13-9/15 |
Women, The Cave, and Math |
Assignment 2: Pythagoras,
Plato, arithmology, numerism, and numerology. McC&D:
pp. 55-65. Course
package readings: Plato and et al. |
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3 |
9/20-9/22 |
Greek Numerological Cosmos |
Assignment 3: Maths,
Cosmology, Lucretius I McC&D:
pp. 65-78. Music
Lab Lucretius
Book I Course
package readings: Newsome on Er and Quadrivium |
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4 |
9/27-9/29 |
Atoms and Medicine |
Assignment 4: , Aristotle,
Eratosthenes, Ptolemy, Galen, Lucretius, Lucretius
Books II. |
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5 |
10/4-10/6 |
Atoms and Elements |
Assignment 5: Lucretius,
Medieval Islamic Natural Philosophy. Lucretius
Book III. McC&D:
pp. 103-115 Course
package readings: Hyman and Walsh and an IOT episode. |
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6 |
No
Class 10/11 Regular
Classes 10/12-10/13 |
Atoms and NeoPlatonic
Aristotle |
Assignment 6: Ibn Tufayl Course
package readings: Ibn Tufail |
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7 |
10/18-10/20 Middle
of Term |
Lucretius and China Thursday: First Exam |
Assignment 7: Lucretius,
odds and ends, and Exam I Lucretius Book IV. McC&D
pp.121-140. |
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8 |
10/25-10/27 |
World Agriculture and Lucretius |
Assignment 8: World
Agriculture, Corn, The French Disease Lucretius
Book V Course
package readings: Pollan and Mann |
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9 |
11/1-11/3 |
Nitro.... |
Assignment 9: Nitrogen and
Atomic Meteorology Course
package readings: Bown, Leigh, Lucretius |
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10 |
11/8-11/10 |
SciRev I |
Assignment 10: Vesalius,
Copernicus, Tycho, Kepler, Cardano, magic, and witches Course
package readings: Vesalius, Copernicus, Tycho, Kepler, Cardano McC&D:
Chapter on Copernicus et al. |
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11a |
11/15-11/17 |
SciRevII Lucretius' Epicurean Atoms
Revived Quadratics Squared |
Assignment 11: Galileo,
Descartes, Newton, Leibniz, Boyle, and Hooke, Boscovich, etc. McC&D:
Chapters 12 and 13, Galileo and Newton |
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11b |
Class on
11/22. No
Classes on 11/23-11/24 |
SciRevIII |
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12 |
11/29-12/1 |
Industrial Revolution |
Assignment 12: Industrial
Revolution and more N fixing and explosives. Read
Bown: Chs. 3-5. Course
package readings: Pollan |
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13 |
12/6-12/8 |
Life and Mutually Assured
Destruction |
Assignment 13: Malthus and Guano, and the Industrial
Revolution. Read
Bown selections. Course
package readings: Romero, Ure, Engels |
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Final |
12/14-12/15 |
Final Exam: This will be a Take-Home Exam. I will post it on Dec. 14th. |
The final exam begins at 12:01 am on Wednesday, December 14th
and must be returned to me via email by 11:59 pm on December 15th
(Thursday). That gives you 47 hours
and 58 minutes to complete it.
Prepare for it like you did the midterm. Make time in your schedule to do it. There is a reading component that may
take a couple of hours, in addition to the regular question and answer
stuff. You may use any resources
you want, except for each other.
Take the exam by yourself. Here is a link to the Final Exam
Page: Final Exam Good Luck! I'll be sending back instructions for
revisions on your projects. You
should all have them by Wed. Get
them back to me by Friday at midnight. |