HISC 106. The Scientific Revolution (4 units)
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Description
A cultural history of the formation of early modern science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: the social forms of scientific life; the construction and meaning of the new cosmologies from Copernicus to Newton; the science of politics and the politics of science; the origins of experimental practice; how Sir Isaac Newton restored law and order to the West. +
Prerequisite courses
HISC 106 has no prerequisite courses.
Successor courses
No courses have HISC 106 as a prerequisite.