PH01104 Selected Chapters from the History of Science

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2015
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Daniel Špelda, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Josef Krob, CSc.
Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Hana Holmanová
Supplier department: Department of Philosophy – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 14:10–15:45 J22
Prerequisites (in Czech)
PH1207 Modern Times - IV || PROGRAM(N-HS) || PROGRAM(N-PH) || PROGRAM(N-SS)
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 50 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/50, only registered: 0/50, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/50
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The aim of the course is to introduce students in the history of study of nature from the Classical Antiquity to the end of the 18th century. Main attention is paid to astronomy and astroloy, physics and medicine. At the end of the course, student will be able to introduce the main conditions of the emergence of early modern science; to explain several breaking events in the history of science; to understand importance of philosophy for the development of scientific knowledge.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Occult disciplines I: Magic, astrology
  • 3. Occult disciplines II: Alchemy
  • 4. The Renaissance and early modern medicine
  • 5. The Renaissance astronomy
  • 6. Early modern astronomy
  • 7. Physics I: Aristotle, Galileo
  • 8. Physics II: Descartes, Newton
  • 9. Theories of the Earth
  • 10. Religion and early modern science
  • 11. The Genesis of the Idea of Scientific Progress
  • 12. The beginnings of the evolutionary thought in the Enlightenment
  • 13. Philosophy, science and society in the Enlightenment
Teaching methods
lectures; individual reading
Assessment methods
colloquium
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2015, recent)
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