Bibliograph

History of science, antiquity to 1700, [Lawrence M. Principe]

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History of science, antiquity to 1700, [Lawrence M. Principe]

Language

eng

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instructional materials

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lectures speeches

Main title

History of science

Medium

cassette

Oclc number

53991383

Responsibility statement

[Lawrence M. Principe]

Sub title

antiquity to 1700

Summary

Surveys the history of science in the western world from the second millennium B.C. to the early eighteenth century

Table Of Contents

Part I: Lecture 1. Beginning the journey -- Lecture 2. Babylonians, Egyptians, and Greeks -- Lecture 3. The Presocratics -- Lecture 4. Plato and the Pythagoreans -- Lecture 5. Plato's cosmos -- Lecture 6. Aristotle's view of the natural world -- Lecture 7. Aristotelian cosmology and physics -- Lecture 8. Hellenistic natural philosophy -- Lecture 9. Greek astronomy from Eudoxus to Ptolemy -- Lecture 10. The Roman contributions -- Lecture 11. Roman versions of Greek science and education -- Lecture 12. The end of the Classical worldPart II: Lecture 13. Early Christianity and science -- Lecture 14. The rise of Islam and Islamic science -- Lecture 15. Islamic astronomy, mathematics, and optics -- Lecture 16. Alchemy, medicine, and late Islamic culture -- Lecture 17. The Latin West reawakens -- Lecture 18. Natural philosophy at school and university -- Lecture 19. Aristotle and medieval scholasticism -- Lecture 20. The science of creation -- Lecture 21. Science in the orders -- Lecture 22. Medieval Latin alchemy and astrology -- Lecture 23. Medieval physics and earth sciences -- Lecture 24. The Middle Ages and the RenaissancePart III: Lecture 25. Renaissance natural magic -- Lecture 26. Copernicus and calendrical reform -- Lecture 27. Renaissance technology -- Lecture 28. Tycho, Kepler, and Galileo -- Lecture 29. The new physics -- Lecture 30. Voyages of discovery and natural history -- Lecture 31. Mechanical philosophy and revived atomism -- Lecture 32. Mechanism and vitalism -- Lecture 33. Seventeenth-century chemistry -- Lecture 34. The force of Isaac Newton -- Lecture 35. The rise of scientific societies -- Lecture 36. How science develops

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