Course Description:

Reading and analysis of original texts in the development of science from ancient times through the beginning of the scientific revolution.

Texts:

• Plato (427-347 BC) Timaeus
• Aristotle (384-322 BC) Physics, On the Heavens, On the Soul, Parts of Animals
• Galen (130-200 AD) The Art of Medicine
• Ptolemy (~100-178 AD) Almagest
• William Harvey (1578-1657) On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
• Georgius Agricola (1494-1555) De Re Metallica
• Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres
• Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

Student Project Webpages:

• Galen & Harvey, by James Connor & Mary Gallery
• Galileo, by Danny Sattelmaier & Will Brian
• Ptolemy & Copernicus, by Stephanie Bialko & Sarah Thomas
• William Harvey, by Rachel Morehouse & Aaron Basinger

Great Text Program