First Essay Assignment
This is Due on Friday July 11 by 9:50 pm
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Module 2: Renaissance Science
- The Scientific Revolution?
- Science in the Dark Ages
- Some Precursors to Modern Science
- First Steps Towards Copernicus
- Copernicus
- Galileo's Misstatements about Copernicus
- The many contributions of Galileo
- Descartes and the Triumph of Reason
- Descartes Part II
Second Essay Assignment
This is Due on Friday July 25 by 9:50 pm
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Module 3: The Industrial Revolution and Darwin: Shapes of the World to come
1. Summary of Mechanical Philosophy
2. Newton Emerges
3. The Influence of Immanuel Kant
a) Kant's Account of Reason
4. Moving towards 1800
5. The Development of Geology
a) More on the Lyell-Darwin Connection
6. Malthus and Catastrophe
a) More on Malthus
7. The Age of the Earth Debate
8. The Rise of Evolutionary Theory
9. Astronomy Highlights of the 19th Century
Third Essay Assignment
This is Due on Wednesday Aug 13 by 9:50 pm
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Module 4: Precision Science, Fundamental Questions and the Overwhelming Rise of Consumerism:
1. The Scale of the Universe
2. More on the Shapley-Curtis Debate
3. The Discovery of the Expanding Universe
4. The Discovery of Curved Space Time
Why is this Relevant?
5. The Implications of E = mc 2
6. The Photoelectric Effect and the Beginnings of Quantum Mechanics
7. A short history of the development of Quantum Mechanics
8. Implications of Quantum Mechanics
9. Post WW2 massive consumption
The Last Essay: Arrogance or Humility
This will due on Tuesday August 26 by 9:50 pm
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The second midterm covering the last two modules will be August 27-29
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