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HIE 301: Introduction to the History of Science, from Descartes and Newton to Darwin and Einstein.
3 hours, 3 credits. The course examines the nature and significance of scientific thinking in general through the work of Descartes, Leibnitz, and Newton; the conflict between science and religion in the seventeenth century; materialism's penetration of biology from physics; the revolution in chemistry associated with Priestly and Lavoisier; the interface between science and the industrial revolution; the work of the French biologist Claude Bernard, illustrating the development of biology and experimental medicine; the startling work of Charles Darwin; and twentieth-century topics, such as field and atomic theory, relativity, and quantum theory and their important philosophical implications.
Last modified: 2/22/2013
