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Desc: | This course investigates how the natural world was observed, manipulated, and given meaning by people from the ancient period to the Scientific Revolution. We will study science both from the inside: what were the major questions, techniques, and goals of those who studied nature; and from the outside: who studied nature and why? what was the interaction between science and society? We will also examine how these internal and external aspects of natural inquiry changed, as the principles established in classical Greece and Rome were adopted, but also questioned, by Christian and Arabic authors during the medieval period, a synthesis that was challenged again by the new experimental philosophy of the seventeenth century. Through this survey, we can trace as well the ways in which modern science marked a significant shift from the ancient and medieval heritage, and the ways in which it is indebted to the very traditions it so vehemently rejected. |
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