Alchemy – History of Science: Antiquity to 1700

All human beings want to know. The area we now call science has been the focus of our fundamental desire to know for over 2,000 years. Our commitment to science and technology has been so profound that it’s probably the most powerful influence on human culture.

To understand our Western heritage, our contemporary society, and ourselves as individuals, we need to know how science came to be. It’s not like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it Who were the scientists of the past? What was the motivation for their work? Is science related to culture and the needs of a particular society? Science operates in a linear progression from discovery to discovery. What does history tell us about religion and science? A complex evolution has been made clear. An award-winning professor leads you on an exploration of these issues as he traces the evolution of thought and discovery from ancient times to the Scientific Revolution.

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Professor Lawrence M. Principe, who is Professor of both Chemistry and the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, is a winner of the Templeton Foundation’s prestigious award for courses dealing with science and religion. He was chosen Maryland Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation in 1999, after winning several teaching awards.

Dr. Principe gives living order to science’s story by considering it in terms of several penetrating questions, two of which are important. Who pursued science? What happened?

Science is a constantly evolving entity that is closely connected to the needs and commitments of those who pursue it. The real context of even familiar scientific developments will often come as a surprise and can suggest alternative ways for present-day thinking and science to develop.

As science’s earliest thinkers worked under the limitations imposed by the knowledge and culture of their times, they came up with many scientific discoveries that were considered ridiculous or humorous.

Many of the early principles are still relevant today.

Follow the transition from natural philosophy to science.

Our ideas of science and scientists are from the 19th century. The label of scientist did not exist before then.

The study of the natural world was called natural philosophy. Two of the most influential figures in the history of science are Plato and Aristotle.

In the time of the ancient Babylonians and Egyptians, Dr. Principe looked at scientific thought and activity.

He restores the important context he believes has been lost.