For the NCSM--January 2010

Science and Technology in Western Civilization

Robert Friedel
Professor

Dept. of History

University of Maryland

College Park, MD 20742 USA

 

·  DATE 

·  Lecture Titles 

·  Text Readings, McClellan & Dorn

·  Explorations

·  January 4-A
Introduction

·  Knowing and Doing

·  1-54

·   

·  January 4-B
Foundations of Western Science

·  Comprehending Nature

·  Plato, Aristotle, and the Order of Things

·  55-95

·  Ancient Greek Science

·  January 4-C
Technological Foundations of Western Culture

·  The Classical Contribution 

·  175-181 (+look at 117-140)

·  Early European Technology

·  January 5 
The European Middle Ages

·  The Roots of Medieval Life ·  Science and Faith

·  Good Works

·  181-192 (+look at 99-115)

·  Medieval Science & Technology

·  January 7-A 
The Emergence of the Machine

·  Power and Culture

·  Guns and Sails

·  192-201

·  The End of the Middle Ages

·  January 7-B 

The Renaissance

·  The New World

·  203-221

·  The Renaissance

·  January 8  
The Scientific Revolution

·  Reason and Experiment

·  The Harmony of the Spheres

·  223-247

·  Galileo

·  January 12-A
Science and Technology in the 17th Century

·  The Baconian Creed

·  The Newtonian Order

·  249-273

·  The Later Scientific Revolution

·  January 12-B
The Origins of Industrial Technology

·  The Significance of Textiles

·  The Empire of Steam

·  275-292

·  The Industrial Revolution

·  January 13-A
The New Sciences of Life

·  The Chain of Being

·  Evolution

·  313-332

·  Darwin and Evolution

·  January 13-B 
Science and Matter

·  The Chemical Revolution

·  293-312

·  The Chemical Revolution

·  January 14-A
New Powers and New Things

·  The Spread of Scientific Technology

·  The Triumph of Industry

·  333-342

·  Nineteenth Century Technology

·  January 14-B
Mastering the Material World

·  Nineteenth Century Unification

·  Mobility and Communications

·  343-354

·  Nineteenth Century Science and Technology

·  January 18-A
New Scientific Revolutions

·  Twentieth Century Dissolution Atomic Bomb Chronology

·  The New Order of Life

·  355-369

·  Twentieth Century Science

·  January 18-B
The Modern World View

·  The Networked World Computer Chronology

·  Science, Power, and Society

·  371-373

·  The Modern Age