Mar 28, 2024  
University Catalog 2020-2021 
    
University Catalog 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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HIST 3190 - The History of Scientific Thought

(XCOR 3020 ). This course examines how different cultures and individuals have thought about science from the ancient world to the present. Emphasis will be placed on the history of inquiry about the natural world, although technological developments or “applied science” will also be explored. Course topics include mathematics, astronomy, and natural philosophy in the ancient world, attitudes towards science in the Christian and Islamic Middle Ages, the early modern “Scientific Revolution,” and the rapid evolution of scientific ideas in recent centuries, especially in the realms of modern physics, cosmology, chemistry, and genetics. (3)



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