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STS.002 Toward the Scientific Revolution | Science, Technology, and Society

STS.002 Toward the Scientific Revolution | Science, Technology, and Society

This subject traces the evolution of ideas about nature, and how best to study and explain natural phenomena, beginning in ancient times and continuing through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. A central theme of the subject is the intertwining of conceptual and institutional relations within diverse areas of inquiry: cosmology, natural history, physics, mathematics, and medicine.... Show More
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Hippocrates, scientific revolution, Plato, medicine, astronomy, alchemy, technology, history, science, Copernicus, Renaissance, Newton, culture, Vesalius, western, Galileo, Intellectual History, mathematics, Middle Ages, cosmology, natural science, natural history, Galen, Bacon, Euclid, Descartes, History of Science and Technology, physics, Antiquity, Latin West, Ptolemy, Kepler, Aristotle
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Date Added to MERLOT:
May 12, 2016
Date Modified in MERLOT:
July 19, 2018
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Barbra Bied Sperling
Hispanic Serving Institution
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College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division
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English
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