In Great Scientific Ideas That Changed the World, you will explore ideas that—when society has been willing to pursue them—have helped form the foundation of modern life. You’ll interpret the term “scientific idea” broadly, so as to include ideas that made science possible at all, as well as ideas that make science immensely powerful. You will discover there is no sharp distinction between ideas that are classified as scientific and those that are classified as philosophical or mathematical, or even between scientific ideas and political, religious, or aesthetic ideas. Alfred North Whitehead, for example, famously linked the emergence of modern science in the Christian West to the belief in a single, law-observing Creator of the universe.

Course Lecture Titles:
1. Knowledge, Know-How, and Social Change
2. Writing Makes Science Possible
3. Inventing Reason and Knowledge
4. The Birth of Natural Science
5. Mathematics as the Order of Nature
6. The Birth of Techno-Science
7. Universities Relaunch the Idea of Knowledge
8. The Medieval Revolution in Know-How
9. Progress Enters into History
10. The Printed Book—Gutenberg to Galileo
11. Renaissance Painting and Techno-Science
12. Copernicus Moves the Earth
13. The Birth of Modern Science
14. Algebra, Calculus, and Probability
15. Conservation and Symmetry
16. Instruments as Extensions of the Mind
17. Time, Change, and Novelty
18. The Atomic Theory of Matter
19. The Cell Theory of Life
20. The Germ Theory of Disease
21. The Gene Theory of Inheritance
22. Energy Challenges Matter
23. Fields—The Immaterial Becomes Real
24. Relationships Become Physical
25. Evolution as Process Science
26. Statistical Laws Challenge Determinism
27. Techno-Science Comes of Age
28. Institutions Empower Innovation
29. The Quantum Revolution
30. Relativity Redefines Space and Time
31. Reconceiving the Universe, Again
32. The Idea behind the Computer
33. Three Faces of Information
34. Systems, Chaos, and Self-Organization
35. Life as Molecules in Action
36. Great Ideas, Past and Future



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