Syllabus: addresses, texts and requirements, calendar
 
 

Calendar. The assignments below are approximate and tentative. The reading guide for each class will give full details of the assignment and sometimes include passages that are part of your assignment.

    Dear Kuhn Matthews Descartes handouts  
8/25 introduction
8/30 ancient astronomy   1-55       rg
9/1     55-99       rg
9/6 Aristotle's physics     7-32     rg
9/8 medieval cosmology 1-9 100-123       rg
9/13 16th century 10-29 123-133       rg
9/15   30-57         rg
9/20 Copernicus and Tycho   134-171 36-39     rg
9/22   171-209       rg
9/27 Kepler and Galileo 65-79 209-228       rg
9/29     56-86     rg
10/4  Bacon 57-64   47-52   rg
10/6         New Atlantis rg
10/11 sci. societies and Hooke 101-130         rg
midsemester break
10/18 Descartes 80-100 229-242       rg
10/20 Descartes's world       3-32 Prin. of Phil. sel. rg
10/25       32-75   rg
10/27       99-139   rg
11/1       139-169   rg
11/3 Cartesian sci.     92-108     rg
11/8 experiment and Boyle 131-148   111-123     rg
11/10 post-Cartesian mechanics 149-158 243-252 125-132     rg
11/15 Newton 158-167 252-265 137-146     rg
11/17 168-170   146-158     rg
Thanksgiving break
11/29 Matt Maher—
Bacon's New Organon 		        New Org.
(html, pdf)		 rg
12/1 Richard Hogue—Westman, "The Copernicans and the Churches"           rg
12/6 Lincoln Smith—Pascal, "The Weight of the Mass of the Air"           rg
12/8 Zac Simpson—Descartes, Passions of the Soul, part 1           rg