Lecturer: Professor Steven L. Goldman, Lehigh University.
Summary
Presents 12 lectures discussing the evolving relationship of science with society during the 20th century.
Contents
Part 1: lecture 1. Knowledge, know-how, and social change -- lecture 2. Writing makes science possible -- lecture 3. Inventing reason and knowledge -- lecture 4. The birth of natural science -- lecture 5.Mathematics as the order of nature -- lecture 6. The birth of techno-science -- lecture 7. Universities relaunch the idea of knowledge -- lecture 8. The medieval revolution in know-how -- lecture 9. Progress enters into history -- lecture 10. The printed book : Gutenberg to Galileo -- lecture 11. Renaissance painting and techno-science -- lecture 12. Copernicus moves the Earth.