NATS 1750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Theoretical Astronomy, Observational Astronomy, Rachel Carson
2 Apr 2016
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Science and gender around female body and skeleton, and how in the ancient period the skeleton was sex-less but in the 18th century it became gendered. And how the body became a modern body in the future, and how it became a site of disease. (cid:1) (cid:1) Look at the body as a small universe and pre occupations for a modern culture, but want to look at the scale of the universe itself. And how it reflects key anxieties; series of ideas of origins, structure and faith of universe itself. How the history of the universe is a history of humans in the universe itself. (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Cosmology: interested in origin in development of the universe. Question of origins; how did the universe come to be. Origins often point to end points; and how things may end. It ends up asking acute questions about humans and insignificance of humans, and what is the place of humans in this scheme.
