John Dillon The Ancient Origins of Modern Science 0001

The Ancient Origins of Modern Science
John Dillon
Thursdays, 9:3011:30 am
Oct 1-Nov 5, 2009

When Isaac Newton said he stood on the shoulders of giants, he was invoking the ancient Greeks who developed science. We will explore how pagan, Christian, Jewish, and Islamic cultures adopted science — and made their own contributions to its resurgence in Western
Europe. We will also reevaluate how revolutionary Copernicus was, reexamine the trial of Galileo, and look at how and when (or whether) science became modern.

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