PHYS 439The History and Philosophy of Science
- Faculty
- Science
- Last listed
- 1964–65
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1963–64 to 1964–65; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
The nature of science; science and technology in Egypt and Babylon. The development of science in Greece; the Orphic mysteries and the Ionian philosophers. Plato and Aristotle; Archi- Department of Physics medes. The Alexandrian school and the separation of science and philosophy. Technology under the Roman Empire. The mediaeval attitude toward science. The Renaissance. Copernicus and Galileo. Sir Isaac Newton. The physical and biological sciences during the 18th century. Developments during the 19th century in Physics, Chemistry, Technology, Geology. Evolution, and the rise of modern Genetics. The 20th century revolution in pure science and technology. 2 lectures.
As printed in the 1963–64 to 1964–65 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
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In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1963–64 to 1964–65, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1963–64 to 1964–65 2 calendars
The nature of science; science and technology in Egypt and Babylon. The development of science in Greece; the Orphic mysteries and the Ionian philosophers. Plato and Aristotle; Archi-
Department of Physics
medes. The Alexandrian school and the separation of science and philosophy. Technology under the Roman Empire. The mediaeval attitude toward science. The Renaissance. Copernicus and Galileo. Sir Isaac Newton. The physical and biological sciences during the 18th century. Developments during the 19th century in Physics, Chemistry, Technology, Geology. Evolution, and the rise of modern Genetics. The 20th century revolution in pure science and technology.
2 lectures.