Research Catalog

Title

History of science [videorecording] : antiquity to 1700 / Lawrence M. Principe ; The Teaching Company.

Author

Principe, Lawrence.

Publication

Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2002.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Dunton, Tom.
• Teaching Company.

Description

6 DVDs (ca. 1080 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in. +

Summary

Science is often characterized by ideas that have an enormously long shelf life, linking widely separated eras. Our notions of "science" and "scientists" date only to the 19th century. Before then, "science" simply meant knowledge; the label of "scientist" did not exist. Instead, the study of the natural world was known as "natural philosophy." The great philosophers Plato and Aristotle are still considered two of the most influential figures in the history of science. Dr. Principe surveys the history of scientific thought and activity in the western world beginning with the ancient Babylonians and Egyptians, through the early eighteenth century.

Series Statement

Great courses, Ancient & medieval history

Uniform Title

Great courses (DVD)

Alternative Title

Antiquity to 1700

Subject

• Aristotle
• Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543
• History, Ancient
• Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727
• Plato
• Science > History
• Science, Ancient
• Science, Medieval
• Science, Renaissance

Note

• Course guidebooks include lecture outlines and notes, a time line, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography.

Credits (note)

• Producer, James Blandford ; director, Tom Dunton ; camera operators, Jon Leven, Lorita Kimble ; academic content supervisor, Ann Waigand.

System Details (note)

• DVD.

Contents

• Part I : Lecture 1. Beginning the journey ; Lecture 2. Babylonians, Egyptians, and Greeks ; Lecture 3. The presocratics ; Lecture 4. Plato and the Pythagoreans ; Lecture 5. Plato's cosmos ; Lecture 6. Aristotle's view of the natural world -- Lecture 7. Aristotelian cosmology and physics ; Lecture 8. Hellenistic natural philosophy ; Lecture 9. Greek astronomy from Eudoxus to Ptolemy ; Lecture 10. Roman contributions ; Lecture 11. Roman versions of Greek science and education ; Lecture 12. The end of the classical world.
• Part II : Lecture 13. Early Christianity and science ; Lecture 14. The rise of Islam and Islamic science ; Lecture 15. Islamic astronomy, mathematics, and optics ; Lecture 16. Alchemy, medicine, and late Islamic culture ; Lecture 17. The Latin West reawakens ; Lecture 18. Natural philosophy at school and university -- Lecture 19. Aristotle and Medieval scholasticism ; Lecture 20. The science of creation ; Lecture 21. Science in the orders ; Lecture 22. Medieval Latin alchemy and astrology ; Lecture 23. Medieval physics and earth sciences ; Lecture 24. The Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
• Part III : Lecture 25. Renaissance natural magic ; Lecture 26. Copernicus and calendrical reform ; Lecture 27. Renaissance technology ; Lecture 28. Tycho, Kepler, and Galileo ; Lecture 29. The new physics ; Lecture 30. Voyages of discovery and natural history -- Lecture 31. Mechanical philosophy and revived atomism ; Lecture 32. Mechanism and vitalism ; Lecture 33. Seventeenth-century chemistry ; Lecture 34. The force of Isaac Newton ; Lecture 35. The rise of scientific societies ; Lecture 36. How science develops.

ISBN

• 1565856007 (set)
• 9781565856004 (set)
• 9791565856003

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library