Extra resources on the Internet

For the benefit of students who want to know more about some of the topics in Science as Discovery, or who want another explanation, or just to see different diagrams. Not every lecture topic is available, but some of them are. These can be of help when another explanation of the same topic would help.

These are in the form of excerpts from my lecture notes, with imbedded links to other sites on the Internet.

The topics available, tied to the lecture notes are:

For the first half of the course, up to Newton:

• Eudoxus of Cnidus
• Ancient Astronomy
• Rome
• The Middle Ages
• Clocks and Printing
• The Renaissance
• Transportation and Exploration
• The Copernican Revolution
• The Cosmic Calendar, by Louis-Philippe Caron

For the physical science part of the second half of the course:

• Whig History
• Scientific Discovery and Scientific Method
• Chemistry
• The Enlightenment
• The Industrial Revolution
• Thermodynamics
• Electromagnetism
• Relativity
• Quantum Mechanics
• Cosmology

For the biological part of the second half of the course:

• Geology
• Taxonomy
• Evolution
• Inheritance
• Genetics
• DNA

Revised May 5, 2007