Great Scientific Ideas That Changed the World

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Course No. 1120.
Compact discs.
36 lectures -- 30 minutes per lecture.
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
Lecture 13. The birth of modern science -- Lecture 14. Algebra, calculus, and probability -- Lecture 15. Conservation and symmetry -- Lecture 16. Instruments as extensions of the mind -- Lecture 17. Time, change, and novelty -- Lecture 18. The atomic theory of matter -- Lecture 19. The cell theory of life -- Lecture 20. The germ theory of disease -- Lecture 21. The gene theory of inheritance -- Lecture 22. Energy challenges matter -- Lecture 23. Fields : the immaterial becomes real -- Lecture 24. Relationships become physical
Lecture 25. Evolution as process science -- Lecture 26. Statistical laws challenge determinism -- Lecture 27. Techno-science comes of age -- Lecture 28. Institutions empower innovation -- Lecture 29. The quantum revolution -- Lecture 30. Relativity redefines space and time -- Lecture 31. Reconceiving the universe, again -- Lecture 32. The idea behind the computer -- Lecture 33. Three faces of information -- Lecture 34. System, chaos, and self-organization -- Lecture 35. Life as molecules in action -- Lecture 36. Great ideas, past and future.
Lecturer, Steven L. Goldman.
Professor Steven L. Goldman of Lehigh University presents thirty-six lectures (ca. thirty minutes each) on the historic milestones in the various branches of science.

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