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HIST401 Syllabus
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Study Questions
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Essay Reviews
Essay Review Instructions
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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
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November 13, 2006
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University of Maryland - Fall 2004
HIST 401
The Origins of Modern Science
from Aristotle to Newton
Instructor: Stephen G. Brush
Please note change to Essay Review Instructions.
For the FIRST essay review, simply choose a topic from I or II. Ignore
previous instruction limiting the period to "before 1700."
Lectures: Tu & TH 12:30-1:45 pm, Computer Science Instructional
Center (CSI), room 2107
beginning August 31
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last lecture December 9
Instructor's offices: Computer & Space Science Bldg. (CSS) 4341 and Taliaferro Hall (TLF), Room 2117
Phone: x-54846 (from off campus, 301-405-4846
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.
Office hours: Tu 2-2:30 in TLF 2117; Th 11:45-12:15 in CSS 4341
other times Tu & Th in CSS 4341 (call first)
Course website:
http://punsterproductions.com/~sciencehistory/H401/syll_p1.php
Course description:
The course offers an introduction to the history of
physical science, focusing on the transformation in our understanding of
the world during the 16th and 17th centuries. Topics:
(1) The Aristotelian World-View; Science in Antiquity;
(2) Islam & China: Where Modern Science Might have Started;
(3) Decline of Islamic & Chinese Science; The European Renaissance;
(4) The Astronomical Revolution;
(5) Science in the 17th Century;
(6) Newton and the "Scientific Revolution."
HIST401 is the first half of a two-semester
sequence. HIST402, to be offered in the Spring, will cover the
history of physical science from Newton to Einstein.
Prerequisite:
Any course that satisfies the CORE Physical Sciences
requirement, plus any course that satisfies the CORE Professional Writing
requirement. No specific knowledge of science and mathematics is
assumed, beyond normal high school graduation requirements.
Required Texts:
- Cohen, I. B., The Birth of a New Physics (rev. ed. 1985)
- Dear, P., Revolutionizing the Sciences
- Drake, S., Galileo
- Gleick, Isaac Newton
- Huff, T. E., The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China, and the West
- Lindberg, D. C., The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition
in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450
- Matthews, M. R., The Scientific Background to Modern Philosophy, Selected Readings
Recommended book (parts of this book will be required reading):
- Diamond, J., Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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