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Date |
Lecture* Title and Summary |
Resources |
January 20 |
Gaining Perspective |
Mathematics in Western Culture - Morris Kline The Western Intellectual Tradition - J. Bronowski and Bruce Mazlish The Renaissance - History of Civilization V - Will and Ariel Durant Geometry of Khmer Empire Temples - Mike Hruska |
January 22 |
Monk, Master and Mystic - Uncentering the Earth
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The Book Nobody Read - Owen Gingerich Link to Jantar Mantar astronomical observation site |
January 24 |
Galileo - Stillman Drake Sidereus Nuncius - Galileo (Albert VanHelden trans.) Galileo's Daughter - Dava Sobel |
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January 27 |
Appeal to Reason Setting the stage for the transition to the modern world |
The Ascent of Man - J. Bronowski |
January 29 |
The “Quart-Jug” Baby Who Changed the World The life of Isaac Newton |
Never at Rest - Richard Westfall In the presence of the Creator - Gale Christianson The Construction of Modern Science - Mechanisms and Mechanics - Richard Westfall |
January 31 |
Newtonianism and making of the modern mind |
Newton and the Culture of Newtonianism - Betty Jo Teeter-Dobbs and Margaret C. Jacob The Newtonian system of the world, the best model of government : an allegorical poem - Desaguliers |
February 3 |
Siblings Who Charted the Heavens A brief history of William and Caroline Herschel and how they created modern astronomy |
The Age of Wonder - How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science - Richard Holmes |
February 5 |
The Rock Star and the Bookbinder The remarkable lives of Humphrey Davy and Michael Faraday and the birth of modern chemistry |
The Electric Life of Michael Faraday - Alan Hirschfeld The Chemical History of a Candle Michael Faraday |
February 7 |
How a Beagle Changed the World How Charles Darwin gave us new eyes with which to see the world |
The Origin - Irving Stone guest lecture - Dr. Darcy Visscher |
February 10 |
The DYE is Cast - How Chemistry Transformed the World The role of chemistry as the "Central Science" |
guest lecture - Dr. Leah Martin Mauve, by Simon Garfield The Demon Under the Microscope, by Thomas Hager |
February 12 |
Feeding the World - A Two Edged Sword Nitrogen, Haber-Bosch and how Nitrogen production both saves and threatens humanity |
guest lecture - Dr. Leah Martin |
February 14 |
The End of Time - The End of Space The remarkable conjunction of a physicist, painter and composer - each transforming our culture in remarkable ways - Einstein, Picasso and Stravinksy |
Subtle is the Lord - The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein - Abraham Pais Einstein - His Life and Universe - Walter Isaacson Einstein and Picasso - Space, Time and the Beauty that causes Havoc - Arthur I. Miller |
February 17 |
No Class - Family Day | |
February 19 |
The Secret Weapon - How Antibiotics Helped Win the War The interesting history and future of antibiotics |
guest lecture - Dr. Nathaniel Martin |
February 21 |
The birth of quantum theory and how its impact is still being felt in our view of the world |
The Quantum Ten - a Story of Passion, Tragedy, Ambition and Science - Sheilla Jones |
| February 24 | Enchanted Expanses | |
| *current lecture will be available following each class presentation | ||