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Studies in the Scientific
Revolution |
HHS 369 - Thursdays 6:15-08:45 PM |
Daniel Newsome Presiding Rm. 335 Peirce: by
appointment |
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Room
219, Babio (Previously Morton Complex 105) |
Spring 2007 |
Syllabus
Research
Tools - S.C.Williams Library
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Date |
Class Topic |
Details and Links to Assignment Pages |
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1 |
1/18/07 |
Introduction:
Overview and Classical/Medieval/Islamic World View Set Up. |
Assignment 1
(Show up): Ancient to late Medieval epistemology, ontology, physics, metaphysics,
mechanics, quadrivium, medicine, and religion. How-to ask questions. Scientific
Revolution: a period from ca. 1543-1750 or something else? Lecture PDFs
– I added one more .doc to these on 3/9 for Exam review. |
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2 |
1/25/07 |
Philosophy to
Natural Philosophy to Science to Natural Philosophy toÉ |
Assignment 2:
Ibn TufaylÕs Story of Hai: An example of how Plato and Aristotle shaped Allah/God. Lecture: Ibn
Tufail, Aristotelian perception and physiology. Empiricism? Grosseteste on
LightÉ The light of creation vs. the light of the sun. |
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1/29/07 |
Last day to
Add/Drop |
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3 |
2/1/07 |
Macrocosm I (and some
microcosm) |
Assignment 3:
Shapin, Bacon, Rheticus/Copernicus Intro., OsianderÕs Hypothesis. I added Exam
review materials on 3/10. |
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4 |
2/8/07 |
Macrocosm II Kepler as
Ptolemy |
Assignment 4:
Kepler Readings: Ptolemy/Kepler
parallels. Mysterium Cosmographicum. I added Exam
review materials on 3/10. |
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5 |
2/15/07 |
Astro and
Health I |
Assignment 5: Harmonics
vs. Harmonices Mundi, Cardano-medical/astrology/math,
Galen-Mondino-Vesalius-Harvey (Servetus) Readings: Gouk,
Kepler, Debus, Shapin Lecture on Harmonice
mundi and circulation. I added Exam
review materials on 3/11. |
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6 |
2/22/07 |
Body and Health
II Physiologies,
Anatomies, the Search for Atoms |
Assignment 6:
Microscopes, Atoms, and a little optics. Readings: Hooke
and Hall. I added Exam
review materials on 3/11. |
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7 |
3/1/07 |
Galileo |
Assignment 7:
Galileo Read the Walker
chapter on Galileo and experiment. |
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3/6/07 |
Midpoint |
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8 |
3/8/07 |
Descartes,
Boyle, et al. and Secret
Societies |
Assignment 8:
Boyle and the Air Pump and how experiments are viewed. Torricelli and Pascal and tiny
filaments in the airÉ |
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3/15/07 |
Recess |
Finish reading
the Shapin book. |
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9 |
3/22/07 |
Pressure or
weight or spring of the air.
What is at the top of TorricelliÕs barometer? |
Midterm Exam and
Assignment 9: See each
assignment page above for new additions for review. I have amended
the Exam criteria and the regular assignment as of 3/16, so check it out. Lecture:
Descartes, Boyle, atoms, vacuum, PV=Constant. The horror. Diogenes and
Lucretius discoveredÉ Epicureanism and atoms. |
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10 |
3/29/07 |
Philosophy and
Idealism and the Calculus |
Assignment 10:
NewtonÕs Principia. Hobbes, Locke, Jefferson, Franklin - U.S. Constitution as
axiomatic document all Euclid. |
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11 |
4/5/07 |
The Arts in
Science and vice versa and optics.
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Assignment 11:
Light, camera obscura, action, optics.
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12 |
4/12/07 |
Societies and
matter theory. |
Assignment 12:
17th and 18th c. religions, psychology, anatomical
imaging, science satire. The Big
Questions. Important
Information: Final Papers
Overview |
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13 |
4/19/07 |
Following
Newton and Leibniz |
Assignment 13:
Matter as stuff or qualified space?
Least action, energy, time, É Lavoisier,
Boscovich, Priestley, Young, Erasmus Darwin, Davy, Maupertuis, Laplace, Kant,
Matter gone
wild. |
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4/25/07 |
Last day to
withdraw. |
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14 |
4/26/07 |
ComteÕs Vision
in the rear view mirror: |
Assignment 14: Philosophy of Science: Standards and
the Extremes. Kuhn, Popper,
Planck, Sulloway, Hume, Feyerabend, Sokol, and Brush. note from 7/07:
use KuhnÕs ÒWhat are Scientific RevolutionsÓ from The probabilistic
revolution, ed. by Kruger: at GC; QA273 .A4 P76 1987 |
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5/10/07 |
Final Exam |
Final Exam for HHS 369EV Final Exam Page May 10th, 6pm-10pm -- BC219 (It wonÕt take 4
hours) |
*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:
- Debus, Allen G. Man and Nature in the Renaissance. New York: Cambridge University Press, 197?. There are many used copies available for under $5.
- 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. This is available used starting at about $3.
- 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 a PDF of this but if you want a hard copy this will work.
-Other readings will be provided in class or as PDFs
available through this site.