Lecture Notes

LEC # INSTRUCTOR TOPICS FILES
1   Introduction (PDF)
1. Matter
2 Kaiser The stuff of matter in the ancient world (PDF - 3.0MB)
3 Kaiser Alchemy and experiment in the Renaissance (PDF - 3.4MB)
4 Kaiser Textbooks and chemical order, from Lavoisier to Mendeleev (PDF - 3.1MB)
5 Kaiser Quantum alchemy? (PDF - 2.1MB)
2. Nature
6  Jones The nature of nature in ancient and medieval worlds

(PDF - 12.4MB)
7 Jones Exploring, collecting, classifying

(PDF - 6.3MB)
8 Jones Evolution and the origin of species

(PDF - 8.2MB)
9 Jones Ecology and environment

(PDF - 3.9MB)
3. Motion
10 Kaiser From "natural motions" to "laws of motion" (PDF - 1.8MB)
11 Kaiser Beer brewing, steam engines, and the fate of the cosmos (PDF - 2.9MB)
12 Kaiser Space, time, and spacetime (PDF - 2.5MB)
4. Body
13 Jones Blood, guts and images

(PDF - 14.9MB)
14 Jones Cell theory

(PDF - 5.2MB)
15 Jones Physiology and experiment

(PDF - 6.0MB)
16 Jones Models of inheritance and genetics

(PDF - 4.0MB)
5. Heavens
17 Kaiser To save the phenomena (PDF - 1.7MB)
18 Kaiser Copernicus: Round and round we go (PDF - 2.9MB)
19 Kaiser The Newtonian cosmos (PDF - 2.3MB)
20 Kaiser Einstein, gravity, and politics (PDF - 2.1MB)
6. Mind
21 Jones Mind-body

(PDF - 9.0MB)
22 Jones Madness

(PDF - 8.4MB)
23 Jones Brains in the lab: Experimental psychology

(PDF - 3.9MB)
24 Jones Man-machine

(PDF - 7.4MB)
25  Kaiser Conclusion (PDF)