(36 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) Course No. 1200 Taught by Lawrence M. Principe Johns Hopkins University Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, Indiana University at Bloomington; Ph.D.,

History of Science, Johns Hopkins University Course Lecture

Contents: pt. I:
lecture 1. Beginning the journey --
lecture 2. Babylonians, Egyptians, and Greeks --
lecture 3. The Presocratics --
lecture 4. Plato and the Pthagoreans --
lecture 5. Plato's cosmos --
lecture 6. Aristotle's view of the natural world --
lecture 7. Aristotelian cosmology and physics --
lecture 8. Hellenistic natural philosophy --
lecture 9. Greek astronomy from Eudoxus to Ptolemy --
lecture 10. Roman contributions --
lecture 11. Roman versions of Greek science --
lecture 12. The End of the Classical world.

pt. II:
lecture 13. Early Christianity and science --
lecture 14. The Rise of Islam and Islamic Science --
lecture 15. Islamic astronomy, mathematics, and optics --
lecture 16. Alchemy, medicine, and late Islamic culture --
lecture 17. The Latin West reawakens --
lecture 18. Natural philosophy at school and university --
lecture 19. Aristotle and Medieval scholasticism --
lecture 20. The Science of creation --
lecture 21. Science in the orders --
lecture 22. Medieval Latin alchemy and astrology --
lecture 23. Medieval physics and earth sciences --
lecture 24. The Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

pt. III:
lecture 25. Renaissance natural magic --
lecture 26. Copernicus and Calendrical reform --
lecture 27. Renaissance technology --
lecture 28. Tycho, Kepler, and Galileo --
lecture 29. The new physics --
lecture 30. Voyages of discovery and natural history --
lecture 31. Mechanical philosophy and revived atomism --
lecture 32. Mechanism and vitalism --
lecture 33. Seventeenth-century chemistry --
lecture 34. The force of Isaac Newton --
lecture 35. The rise of scientific societies --
lecture 36. How science develops.