HPS210H1- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 12 pages long!)

• School: UTSG
• Department: History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
• Course: HPS210H1
• Professor: Adam Richter

Document Summary

Introduction: this course will examine case studies in the history of science from. Classical antiquity through to the end of the 18th c. , with an emphasis on the multifaceted process of how scientific knowledge changes over time. Explain major changes in the history of science up to 1800. Recognize and describe the ideas of key figures in the history of science. Identify intellectual and social factors that cause scientific knowledge to change over time. Evaluate historians arguments about key figure and developments in science. Synthesize material from different topics to make arguments about particular subjects and about the history of science in general. How process of scientific knowledge changes over time. Idea that modern science was created between middle of 16th and end of 17th c. Thomas kuhn, the structure of scientific revolutions (1962) Natural philosophy: subjects in which knowledge was not certain (provisional knowledge) Natural history: descriptive account of floura and fauna in nature (life sciences) (istory of (cid:498)science(cid:499)