An Overview

My project is going to be part of a larger on going project to create a syllabus and online course work for a class: The History of Science and Technology. Not only do I think that I will be able to apply for grants to continue this work, but also that I might be able to tap into some of the STEM- (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) specific grants. I am going to continue to work on My So-Called Scientific Revolution, but I needed to situate where this information would come in the larger context of the class--knowing that I can go back and change ideas and resources as needed.

I've pulled out or purchased a couple of new textbooks, that I will be reading through to help design this course. I used these texts to help produce a *very* general outline.

Dr. Robert A. Hatch
Scientific Revolution Homepage

David C. Lindberg
The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific radiation in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450 (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1992)
There's also a newer edition, which I don't have (yet).

James E. McClellan and Harold Dorn
Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006)

Steven Shapin
The Scientific Revolution (Chicago and London: THe University of Chicago Press, 1996)

I also will be referring to other books in my reference library as noted, in my post Books from the Attic.

I will continue here with the iterations as I work on them. But this felt like a big step in the right direction.


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HIS 295 - Topics: History of Science and Technology

Unit One: "Apes to Alexander"
Week 1 - What is Science? What is Technology?
Week 2 - Early Man to Egypt
Week 3 - My Big Fat Greek Cosmos
Week 4 - It's All Greek to Me
Week 5 - Rome: Veni, Vidi, Vici

Unit Two: Science in the Middle (Age) and Outside (Europe)
Week 6 - Islamic Science
Week 7 - China, India, America
Week 8 - Light in the Dark

Unit Three: My So-Called Scientific Revolution
Week 9 - Copernicus
Week 10 - Kepler and Galileo - The First Copernicans
Week 11 - Descartes and Bacon
Week 12 - "And God said, 'Let Newton be!'"

Unit Four: (We are) Living, In an Industrial World
Week 13 - Machine, Humans, and Animals
Week 14 - Einstein, the Bomb, and Beyond

Week 15 - Review
Week 16 - Exam // Essay