History 30B, Spring 2000

Science and Society since the Scientific Revolution

Daily outline, Class 2 (1/20/00)

 
Topics 

Some themes from last time 

Unification 
Materiality and abstraction 
Practice 
Social setting 
Continuity
18th-century categorizations of knowledge 

Newton 

The Principia and the Opticks 
Mechanical (corpuscular) philosophy 
Hypotheses 
Newton's complications
Consolidation of the mechanical philosophy 
 		 Names and terms 

natural philosophy 
natural history 
Encyclopedia 
Isaac Newton (1642-1727) 
Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica (1687) 
Opticks (1704) 
ontology, epistemology, methodology 
Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, John Locke 
"I frame no hypotheses" 
aether 
alchemy 
Hermetic tradition 
Paracelsus
 
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