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Department of History - University of Florida HIS 6480 - Pre-Newtonian Science Autumn 2003 - Wednesday - E1-3 - CBD 212 |
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The time frame 'Before Newton' is as daunting as it is exhilarating. That sprawling chunk of temporal real estate occupies a fair share of Global History, and as it unfolded, it took centerstage in what has been called the 'Western Intellectual Tradition'. Skeptical readers might question all of this. What seems clear is that the territory marked by 'Pre-Newtonian science' (an unhappy misnomer) supplies the critical warf and weft of the History of Science, and what followed -- Post-Newtonian Science -- is utterly unintelligible without it, whether across space, time, or theme. If the past is a foreign country, the journey that lies ahead will test our strength and our sensibilities. Daunting from the outset, we can be confident that the trip will be difficult. For all that, 'pre-Newtonian science' need not strike fear in our hearts. But we wisely assess our limitations from the start. Our journey to those High and Far-Off Times will require some self-assessment. Some travelers, no doubt, will feel more at home than others. For those who have mastered several ancient languages -- Acadian, Sumerian, ancient Greek -- and perhaps those with polished skills in Latin and several modern European languages, we welcome you aboard. For the rest, we begin with some trepidation, wisely weighing our hopes for historical understanding against our immediate travel needs. Most of us check-in with a small overnight bag and the barest necessities. Our sense of skepticism and discomfort will no doubt grow with our sense of humility. But arguably, if our journey to the lands of Pre-Newtonia is worth the effort, all pretense to humility will become useless baggage. One advantage of overwhelming ignorance is unfounded confidence. We will all need a certain ragamuffin daring-do. Neither fearless nor fearful, our first objective is to agree on a reasonable path. Below, I have attempted to weave these wants and needs into an appropriate itinerary. To that end, this Graduate Seminar has two objectives. First, to identify critical issues that help define these vast periods (involving specific writings, activities, and practices) by exploring the most important contours of a sprawling secondary scholarship. Second, and decidedly more challenging, we aim to examine selected primary sources. Here our goal is to come to grips with major issues -- by examining the historiographic background and the philosophic underpinnings of earlier scholarship -- in order to link those issues with primary texts. In practice, each Seminar participants will write and defend a Critical Essay based on primary sources. This Essay will focus on historical interpretations (related to a clearly defined 'school' or 'tradition' of historical writing) and in turn rooted in specific primary printed texts. The purpose of the Last Essay is to examine issues from the secondary literature and to analyze those interpretations in relation to those primary sources. The function of the Seminar Essays is to call into question those interpretive traditions by supplying fresh readings of primary sources. Further particulars of the Last Essay will be provided and discussed in Seminar. In addition to the Last Essay, participants are expected to write weekly Critiques, to take an active part in Seminar discussions, and to present their preliminary research to a critical audience. The Last Essay will be presented and defended in Seminar. Each of these requirements is built into the Seminar schedule. Please note that weekly readings are assigned one week in advance and discussed the following week; the Critique is due at that time.. Office hours for Professor Hatch are Wednesday, 2.00-3.00pm; 5.00-6.00pm, and by appointment, 226 Keene-Flint Hall. Seminar Members are encouraged to take advantage of Office Hours. Telephone: 392.0271 (24h machine); E-Mail: ufhatch@ufl.edu. As in the past, I will also establish a 'Sci-Rev ListServe' which will include all Seminar Participants. This ListServe will allow group communication for those times when we are not all in the same room. Finally, other required materials, background information, bibliography, and other resources, are found at my WebSite: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/rhatch/pages Evaluation:
All required work is announced on this syllabus. Because a schedule is now available, arrangements for late work must be made in advance. Evaluation takes five forms: 1. Comprehension of assigned
readings, lectures, and discussions Required
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Shared Readings - Classics Figurative & Literal Neugebauer, Otto, The Exact Sciences in Antiquity. Claggett, Marshall, Greek Science in Antiquity; Recommended: Farrington, Benjamin, Greek Science. Lloyd, G.E.R., Early Greek Science, Thales to Aristotle. Lloyd, G.E.R., Aristotle, The Growth & Structure of His Thought. Lloyd, G.E.R., Greek Science After Aristotle Grant, Edward, Physical Science in the Middle Ages. Lindberg, David C., Editor, Science in the Middle Ages. Read: Three or four standard surveys on the Scientific Revolution -- from Burtt, Butterfield, Boas, Debus, Hall, Westfall, Henry, Shapin, Dear, et alia. For suggestions, consult with the instructor. Finally: Other required readings will be available at JSTOR and more importantly at EEBO, two major electronic sites for primary printed sources. Students are encouraged to become familiar with these sites immediately. For details, please see below. This course employs primary source materials from the WWW, notably English Books On-Line (EEBO) and the French site, GALLICA. Other electronic sites will be noted, discussed, and explored. To begin, students are encouraged to spend time at my 'Search Site' to become familiar with related Library Resources, Search Engines, and Primary Source Sites. Further particulars will be discussed in class. For a general overview of the Primary Sources, See: Research - Primary Sources. Also, please see below. Recommended & Recent Published Works: Applebaum, Wilbur. The Scientific Revolution: An Encyclopedia. (Garland 2000). Biagioli, Mario. Galileo, Courtier: The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism {Chicago 1993}. Bouwsma, William J. The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640. (Yale 2000). Burtt, Edwin A. The metaphysical foundations of modern physical science. Butterfield, Herbert, Sir. The origins of modern science. Cook, Alan. Edmond Halley: Charting the Heavens and the Seas. (Oxford, 1998). Dear, Peter. Mersenne & the learning of the schools. Dear, Peter. Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500-1700. (Princeton 2001). Dear, Peter (ed.). The Scientific Revolution in Early Modern Europe: Readings from Isis. (Chicago 1997). Hall, A. Rupert. Isaac Newton, Adventurer in Thought. (Blackwell 1992). Henry, John, The Scientific Revolution & the Origins of Modern Science. Israel, Jonathan I. Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650-1750. (Oxford 2001). Jardine, Lisa, Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution (Doubleday, 1999). Johns, Adrian. The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (Chicago, 1998). Joy, Lynn. Gassendi, atomist. (Cambridge U Press). Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Lindberg, David C. and Robert S. Westman. Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution Miller, Peter. Peiresc's Europe: Learning & Virtue in the Seventeenth Century. Osler, Margaret J. Rethinking the Scientific Revolution. (Cambridge 2000). Povey, Mary. A History of the Modern Fact : Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of wealth and Society (Chicago 1998). Shapin, S. & Schaffer, S. Leviathan & the air-pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life. (Princeton 1985). Shapin, Steven. The Scientific Revolution. (Chicago, 1998). Shapin, Steven. A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England {Chicago 1994} Shapiro, Barbara. A Culture of Fact: England, 1550-1720.S (Cornell 2000) Sobel, Dava. Galileo's Daughter. (Walker & Company, New York, 1999). Sturdy, David J. Science and Social Status: The Members of the Académie des Sciences, 1666-1750. (Boydell 1995). etc. NB: Other titles will be suggested and discussed in Seminar. Other Recommended Books at the Library: Armitage,
Angus. The World of Copernicus Please consult the prepared bibliography for recent works. |
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Department of History - University of Florida HIS 6480 - Pre-Newtonian Science Autumn 2003 - Wednesday - E1-3 - CBD 212 |
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This course employs primary source materials from electronic WebSite, notably English Books On-Line (EEBO) and the French site, GALLICA. Other electronic sites will noted, discussed, and explored. To begin, Seminar Members are encouraged to spend time at my 'Search Site' to become familiar with related Library Resources, Search Engines, and Primary Source Sites. Further particulars will be discussed in class. For a general overview of the Primary Sources, See: Research - Primary Sources. For background, to begin, See Hatch: 'Reading Primary Sources'. Seminar
Members will join our group with different backgrounds and different
expectations. The following page with useful links provides critical
background. Please explore & exploit the following:
Before the Scientific Revolution - Philosophical Background Seminar
Members will have electronic access to a wide but hardly exhaustive
selection of secondary sources. These secondary scholarly articles will
be used in concert with primary printed sources, many of them available
in PDF format. Some electronic sources have been digitized and hence
are fully searchable:
Background
to the Scientific Revolution: Secondary Sources (Hatch)
Background to the Scientific Revolution: Primary Sources (Hatch) Primary Sources: Natural Philosophy Before Newton (Hatch) Seminar
Members should become familiar, at the earliest possible date, with
the electronic texts available on the web; below, risking some duplication
of the above, are the major sites, most of which provide access to primary
printed sources for the time periods discussed in this Seminar.
Books & Journals - Electronic EBBO - Early English Books On-Line (EEBO) - {Virtually everything published in English to 1700} BN Paris, Gallica {Thousands of titles, e.g., the PT of the Royal Society; Journal des Scavans}; English Intro. ABU - Bibliothèque Universelle - Books - French Classics {Provided here as one example of many others}, etc. EEBO - TCP = Early English Books Online - Text Creation Partnership - Digitized & Searchable Texts. Journals - JSTOR - {Includes journals of historical interest, including searchable PT of the Royal Society, 1664 - } DAWB - Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (1700-1900) {DAWB} BOD - The Bodleian Library - Oxford - includes many journals of historical interest on-line {Bodleian}, etc. HATCH - Other Research & Primary Printed Texts OnLine - HATCH NB: Some files are in PDF format; Adobe Acrobat Reader 5 is available free of charge: Acrobat 5 Seminar
Members should become versed in the available printed materials for
the time periods discussed in this Seminar. Below are several bibliographies
that can be reviewed with an eye toward establishing a personal working
bibliography.
Bibliography - OnLine Bibliography - Hatch - Ancient & Medieval Bibliography - Hatch - The Scientific Revolution Bibliography - Hatch - Other Bibliography Please consult the prepared bibliography for additional recent works. |
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Department of History - University of Florida HIS 6480 - Pre-Newtonian Science Autumn 2003 - Wednesday - E1-3 - CBD 212 |
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PART I: Before Newton: Background & Issues WEEK I: 27 August W: E1-E3 - Plotting Our Course Readings:
Review all course materials; Exhaust Background
materials on web, noted below; WEEK II: 3 September W: E1-E3: Seminar Topic: From Egyptian & Babylonian Science to the 'Greek Miracle' Readings:
Begin & Complete: Marshall Clagett, Origins
of Greek Science, which will be discussed next week. 1. WEEK III: 10 September W: E1-E3: Seminar Topic: Greek Miracles Readings:
Begin & Complete:
G.E.R. Lloyd: Early Greek Science: Thales to
Aristotle; G.E.R. Lloyd, Aristotle, the Growth & Structure
of His Thought, which will be discussed next week (two books, one
Critique; if 'Growth' is not available, 'roll over' until following
week). 1. WEEK IV: 17 September W: E1-E3: Seminar Topic: Before The Master of Those Who Know Readings:
Begin & Complete:
G.E.R. Lloyd, Greek Science After Aristotle
(add 'Growth' if not completed in previous week) which will be discussed
next week. 1. WEEK V: 24 September W: E1-E3: Seminar Topic: Aristotle & Legacy Readings:
Begin & Complete: Grant,
Physical Sciences in the Middle Ages; Lindberg, Science in
the Middle Ages (Selections TBA), which will be discussed next week.
Discussion Leaders: 1. WEEK VI: 1 October W: E1-E3: Seminar Topic: Things Medieval - Grant & Lindberg Readings:
Begin & Complete: Renaissance Selections or
Scientific Revolution selections (individually chose), which will be
discussed next week. Discussion Leaders: 1. W: E1-E3: Seminar Topic: Revolutionary Turns - Various Readings Readings: Begin & Complete
reading(s) on Aristotle, which will be discussed next week. 1. PART II: Before Newton: Primary Sources WEEK VIII: 15 October W: E1-E3: Reading:
Aristotle: Discussion Leaders: 1.
WEEK IX: 22 October W: E1-E3: Reading:
Medieval 1. W: E1-E3: Reading:
Copernicanism Discussion Leaders: 1. WEEK XI: 5 November W: E1-E3: Reading: Descartes: Six metaphysical meditations by Descartes, René, 1596-1650. London : Printed by B.G. for Benj. Tooke ..., 1680 - Bib Name / Number:Wing / D1136; - Bib Name / Number:Macdonald, H. Thomas Hobbs / no. 23; - Copy: Cambridge U. Library [Including Objections by Thomas Hobbes] Six Meditations Search, Read & Present one additional text related to the Mechanical Philosophy. Discussion Leaders: 1. WEEK XII: 12 November W: E1-E3: Individual Research WEEK XIII: 19 November Continue, Individual Meetings with Professor Hatch [Wednesday] Seminar Members 1. PART III: Before Newton: Seminar Presentations WEEK XIV: 26 November (Thanksgiving, 27-28 November) Nota Bene: Essays for Presentation &
Defense in Week 15 to be sent electronically by 28 November, 12 Midnight
- w/[Page X]. Nota Bene: Essays for Presentation &
Defense in Week 16 to be sent electronically by 5 December, 12 Midnight
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1. WEEK XVI: 10 December [Last Day of Classes] W: E1-E3 - Essay Presentation & Defense: (Readers & Presenters) 1.
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