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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.