This lecture aims at acquring expert knowledge for history of science and technology, and philosophy of sicence
Students should get basic competence for professionals of above fields.
history of science, history of technology, science and technology studies
✔ Specialist skills | Intercultural skills | Communication skills | Critical thinking skills | Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
At first lecturer or students deliver 60 minutes presentation, and we move on discussion. At the end of lecture, students make comment sheets.
Course schedule | Required learning | |
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Class 1 | The biginning of science | Discussion on what is sicence |
Class 2 | The biginning of technology | Discussion on what is technology |
Class 3 | Natural philosophy and physics of Aristotle | Natural philosophy of Milesian school,, Aristotole as a scientist |
Class 4 | Periodisation of technology | Stone age, bronze age, iron age |
Class 5 | System technology in the ancient | Roman engineering |
Class 6 | Technology during Hellenism | Hero, Arichimedes |
Class 7 | Neo Platonism | Platonian view of nature, and mysticism |
Class 8 | The development of research for Medieval technology | Historography of Gimpel |
Class 9 | Twelfth Century Renaissance | Historiograpyu of Haskins |
Class 10 | Emergence of universities | Schlastic philosophy |
Class 11 | Theory of the Scientific Revolution | Alexandre, Koyre, Copernics |
Class 12 | Hermetic tradition and science | Ficino, Corpus Hermeticum |
Class 13 | Galileo and Descartes | Reformation of mechanics |
Class 14 | Newton | Opticks, Principia |
Class 15 | From deism to the Enlightenmkent | John Toland |
Hideto Nakajima, Science in Society (in Japanese), NHK Books
Please see referenced books in the text book above.
Term paper 60%, comment sheet at the end of lectures 40%
Graduate level knowledge for history of science and technology, and philosophy of science