The History of Science: Antiquity to 1700

1 Beginning the Journey / 2 Babylonians, Egyptians, and Greeks / 3 The Presocratics / 4 Plato and the Pythagoreans / 5 Plato's Cosmos / 6 Aristotle's View of the Natural World / 7 Aristotelian Cosmology and Physics / 8 Hellenistic Natural Philosophy / 9 Greek Astronomy from Eudoxus to Ptolemy / 10 The Roman Contributions / 11 Roman Versions of Greek Science and Education / 12 The End of the Classical World / 13 Early Christianity and Science / 14 The Rise of Islam and Islamic Science / 15 Islamic Astronomy, Mathematics, and Optics / 16 Alchemy, Medicine, and Late Islamic Culture / 17 The Latin West Reawakens / 18 Natural Philosophy at School and University / 19 Aristotle and Medieval Scholasticism / 20 The Science of Creation / 21 Science in the Orders / 22 Medieval Latin Alchemy and Astrology / 23 Medieval Physics and Earth Sciences / 24 The Middle Ages and the Renaissance / 25 Renaissance Natural Magic / 26 Copernicus and Calendrical Reform / 27 Renaissance Technology / 28 Tycho, Kepler, and Galileo / 29 The New Physics / 30 Voyages of Discovery and Natural History / 31 Mechanical Philosophy and Revised Atomism / 32 Mechanism and Vitalism / 33 Seventeenth-Century Chemistry / 34 The Force of Isaac Newton / 35 The Rise of Scientific Societies / 36 How Science Develops