Class Notes


August 28: "Science" in Deep Antiquity

September 2: Early Greek Philosophy

September 4: Aristotle’s cosmology and physics

September 9: Hellenistic science, Greek astronomy

September 11 Greek astronomy II

September 16 Early Greek Medicine


September 23: Science in the early Middle Ages

September 25 Arabic Science I

September 30 Arabic Science II

October 2 Medieval Universities and the Age of Translation

October 7 Medieval Astronomy and Cosmology

October 14 Mechanics and Motion in the Middle Ages

October 16 Alchemy in the Middle Ages


October 23 Copernicus

October 28 Kepler

October 30 Galileo

November 4 Magic and the Occult

November 11 Anatomy and Physiology in the Renaissance

November 13 The Mechanical Philosophy

November 18 Experience and Experiment

November 20 Alchemy in the Scientific Revolution

November 25 Isaac Newton–The Principia

December 2 Isaac Newton–Alchemy