HIST174 Syllabus
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Study Questions
  Midterm (Topics 1 & 2)
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Essay Reviews
  Assignment #1 - Short Essay
  Assignment #2 - Essay Review
  Example #1 by Student
  Example #2 by Student
  Example by Instructor




Instructor:
Dr. Stephen G. Brush
Distinguished University Professor of the History of Science
Department of History
  and
Institute for Physical Science & Technology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742 USA

Stephen G. Brush Home Page



Last modified:
November 13, 2006
© Stephen G. Brush

HIST 174
Introduction to the History of Science

*** ALERT ***
H174 Final Exam Time is 1:30 PM
 (Syllabus page 2 was previously incorrect!)

Spring 2004 Course Syllabus Page 1

Instructor's offices: Taliaferro Hall (TLF), Room 2117 (enter building from South side);
   Computer & Space Science Bldg., Room 4341 (Center Wing, top floor, NW corner)

Mailbox: go to History Department office, F. S. Key Hall, second floor

Phone: 301-405-4846 (CSS office); 301-405-4326 (TLF office, do not leave messages)

E-mail: Stephen Brush has changed his email address. Please write to him an actual paper letter to

Stephen Brush
IPST, University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
USA

to request the new email address. Unless you do this, you may not get a reply from him.

Sorry for the inconvenience but the ever increasing amount of SPAM has made him take this extreme but necessary measure.
(do not expect same day response)

Website: http://punsterproductions.com/~sciencehistory

Office hours: MW 3:15-3:30 in TLF 2117, or call 301-405-4846 for appointment

Lectures: MW 2:00-2:50 in Marie Mount Hall (MMH), Jan. 26-May 10 (except March 22, 24)

Discussion sections: (1) Th 11 in JMZ 0103; (2) M 10 in WDS 1131; (3) M 11 in KEY 0121; (4) Tu 12:30 in WDS 1131; (5) Tu 9:30 in SKN 1112; (6) W 1 in KEY 0123; (7) W 9 in ARM 0102; (8) Th 9:30 in TLF 1103

There will be no section meetings before the first lecture on January 26.  Sections 2 and 3 will meet on Monday, May 10.

Teaching assistants:
Kit Norseth (sections 2, 5, 7, 8), email: knorseth@earthlink.net
Ariel Segal (sections 1, 3, 4, 6), email: asegal@wam.umd.edu

Course website:  http://punsterproductions.com/~sciencehistory/H174.php



Course description:
After a brief survey of the early development of astronomy and physics, this course will focus on the "Second Scientific Revolution" which took place during the period 1800-1950 as a result of the theories and discoveries of Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrödinger and others.  The First Scientific Revolution, led by Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton, had removed the Earth from its place at the center of the universe and established a mechanistic approach to science.  The Second Revolution replaced the cyclic "clockwork universe," created just a few thousand years ago, by a randomly-changing system billions of years old; it introduced new ideas about biological evolution, race, sex, energy, the atom, and the universe.
While presenting the development of selected modern ideas in astronomy, physics, biology and psychology, the lectures and readings will not assume that students are already familiar with these topics.  The emphasis will be on the philosophical or cultural significance of the ideas, and the process by which scientists change from one theory to another.

HIST 174 satisfies the CORE Social Sciences and History (Social or Political History) Distributive Studies requirement.

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