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Studies in the Scientific Revolution: HHS 369EV 219 Babio – Thurs. 6:15 - 8:45 PM |
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Daniel Newsome Presiding Office: 335 Peirce – before class or by appointment. |
SciRev
Syllabus- Fall 2007
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Class Topic |
Details and Links to Assignment Pages |
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0 |
8/30/07 |
Overview and
Classical/Medieval/Islamic World View Set Up. |
Assignment 0
(Show up): Ancient to late Medieval epistemology, ontology, physics, metaphysics,
mechanics, quadrivium, medicine, and religion. Genesis on light. Scientific
Revolution: a period from ca. 1543-1750 or something else? My notes for this lecture: Lecture PDFs
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1 |
9/6/07 |
Philosophy to
Natural Philosophy to Science to Natural Philosophy toÉ |
Assignment 1: Ibn
TufaylÕs Story of Hayy:
An example of how NeoPlatonism, Aristotelianism, and Stoicism shaped the
Islamo-Christian Allah-God. Exam review
materials added 10/5. See
Assignment pages for links. |
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2 |
9/13/07 |
Macrocosm I (and some
microcosm) |
Assignment 2: Copernicus Lecture may hit
Telesio, Bacon, Rheticus/Copernicus Intro., OsianderÕs Hypothesis, etc. Exam review
materials added 10/5. |
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3 |
9/20/07 |
Macrocosm II Proj: KeplerÕs
mother |
Assignment 3: Kepler and
Bacon Exam review
materials added 10/13. |
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4 |
9/27/07 |
Astro and
Health |
Harmonics vs. Harmonices Mundi – Ptolemy v. Kepler Galen-Mondino-Vesalius-Harvey
(Servetus to Harvey: Boas readings) Readings: Gouk,
Kepler, Debus, Shapin Exam review
materials added 10/14. |
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5 |
10/4/07 |
Galileo Proj: Cardano |
Cardano overviewÉ
Cardano-medical/astrology/math Galileo, Walker
chapter on Galileo and experiment. Exam review
materials added 10/14. |
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6 |
10/11/07 |
Micro-Physiologies
Anatomies, Search for Atoms |
Microscopes,
Atoms, and a little optics. Readings: Hooke
and Hall. Assignment 6 Test next week, quiz maybe this week. Exam review
materials added 10/14. |
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Midpoint |
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7 |
10/18/07 |
Descartes,
Boyle, et al. and Secret
Societies Exam I |
Exam I: See assignment pages for all review materials. See SciRev Class Policies for exam information. Start here for
new Final Exam materials. Coffee and
Print: Johns in Cambridge tome Assignment 7 – Exam Review Materials posted on
assignment page on 12/8 |
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8 |
10/25/07 |
Cartesian
Light Printing,
Paper |
Assignment 8: – Exam Review Materials posted on
assignment page on 12/8 Lecture:
Descartes and printed matter. |
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9 |
11/1/07 |
Pressure or
weight or spring of the air.
What is at the top of TorricelliÕs barometer? Philosophy and
Idealism and the Calculus |
Assignment 9 – Exam Review Materials posted on
assignment page on 12/8 Boyle, atoms,
vacuum, PV=Constant. The
horror. Diogenes and
Lucretius discoveredÉ Epicureanism and atoms. Some Shaefer stuffÉ?NewtonÕs
Principia. Hobbes, Locke, Jefferson, Franklin - U.S. Constitution. |
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10 |
11/8/07 |
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Newton and his
physics and math. Assignment 10 – Exam Review Materials posted on
assignment page on 12/8 |
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11 |
11/15/07 |
Societies and
matter theory. |
Assignment 11: Newton
and optics and other things. 17th
and 18th c. religions, psychology, anatomical imaging, science
satire. The Big Questions. |
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11/22/07 |
no class:
Thanksgiving |
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12 |
11/29/07 |
Following
Newton and Leibniz |
Assignment 12: – No Exam Review Materials for this
one. Matter as stuff
or qualified space? Least
action, energy, time, É Lavoisier,
Boscovich, Leibinz, Priestley, Young, Erasmus Darwin, Davy, Maupertuis,
Laplace, Kant, Matter gone
wild É or just gone. |
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13 |
12/6/07 |
ComteÕs Vision
in the rear view mirror: |
This class will
be held on the day of the final.
In other words, this class has been canceled. Students presenting on this day will
present on 12/13 before the Exam. There is still a
reading and writing assignment. Assignment 13: Philosophy of Science: Standards and
the Extremes. Kuhn, Popper,
Planck, Sulloway, Hume, Feyerabend, Sokol, and Brush. No Exam Review
Materials for this one. |
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12/13/07 |
Final Exam |
Final Exam
Information 6:00 to 10:00 in 219 Babio Center (our normal room) |
*Complete the assigned readings before the class
meetings.
Warning: This is not a static document. It will be updated each week.
Texts: Please obtain the following books:
- Boas, Marie. The Scientific Renaissance, 1450-1630. Vol. II The Rise of Modern Science, ed. A. Rupert Hall. New York: Harper and Brothers, 196?. There is also a Dover edition of this book from the 1990s. It is a good general reference and has an excellent index. This is available used starting at about $3. Our very own Matthew Costanzo found it online at: http://www.archive.org/details/scientificrenais007153mbp. Hats off to Matthew.
- Debus, Allen G. Man and Nature in the Renaissance. New York: Cambridge University Press, 197?. There are many used copies available for under $5. Get this by the 3rd or 4th week.
Suggested/OptionalÉ
- Ibn Tufayl, Abu Bakr, and Lenn Evan Goodman. Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzān: A Philosophical Tale Translated with Introduction and Notes. Translated by Lenn Evan Goodman. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1972.
Amazon lists this in their used section as Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan: A Philosophical Tale Translated with Introduction and Notes (Paperback) by Muhammad Ibn 'Abd Al-Mal Ibn Tufayl (Author). They give no translator, but it looks to be Goodman and there are many copies available under $10. I will provide excerpts from this as a PDF, but if you want a hard copy this is the most readily available.
-Other readings will be provided in class or as PDFs
available through this site.