Welcome to NASC 400, History of Science to 1700

Truman State University

Course Overview

This course covers the history of science from ancient  Greece until Isaac Newton. Topics include:

• The emergence of natural philosophy in ancient Greece.

• The transmission of the Greek intellectual heritage to the Islamic and Latin worlds

• The reemergence of the scholarly tradition in Western Europe.

• Renaissance Science and the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century.

• Newton's physics and his interest in Alchemy.

   

Why this Wiki?

This is a test project for using a wiki as a collaborative learning tool. It's a high-tech variant of class participation/discussion where the course goal is to create documents that are created by everyone in the class. Don't worry--there's no way you can break anything. If you want, play for a while in the sandbox to see how you can create content.

Course Documents

NASC 400 Class Notes

All other documents are located on the U: drive.

Exam Questions