HISTORY OF SCIENCE 1   [Archived Catalog]
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HPS 2102 - HISTORY OF SCIENCE 1


Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is the first of two "core" seminars designed to survey the development of scientific thought in Western civilization. In this first seminar, Greek medicine, astronomy, mathematics, biology and physics, its disappearance in the West, its preservation and development in Islam and finally the emergence of modern science in the renaissance, are the main focus.
Academic Career: Graduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Grad LG/SNC Basis
Course Requirements: PLAN: History and Philosophy of Science (MA, PHD)
Course Attributes: West European Studies


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