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We will meet at the Convenor's home at 6 Birch Grove on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month, at 2 pm.
Great Scientific Ideas that Changed the World

A series of lectures on DVD by Professor Steven L. Goldman of Lehigh University, USA

The course explores the ideas that - when society has been willing to pursue them - have helped to form the foundation of modern life.

18 sessions of 2 half- hour lectures, plus discussion, on the following topics:
  1. Knowledge, Know-How and Social Change,
  2. Writing Makes Science Possible,
  3. Inventing Reason and Knowledge,
  4. The Birth of Natural Science,
  5. Mathematics as the Order of Nature
  6. The Birth of Techno-Science
  7. Universities Relaunch the Idea of Knowledge
  8. The Medieval Revolution in Know-How
  9. Progress Enters into History
  10. The Printed Book - Gutenburg to Galileo
  11. Renaissance Painting and Techno-Science
  12. Copernicus Moves the Earth
  13. The Birth of Modern Science
  14. Algebra, Calculus and Probability
  15. Conservation and Symmetry
  16. Instruments as Extensions of the Mind
  17. Time, Change and Novelty
  18. The Atomic Theory of Matter
  19. The Cell Theory of Life
  20. The Germ Theory of Disease
  21. The Gene Theory of Inheritance
  22. Energy Challenges Matter
  23. Fields - the Immaterial Becomes Real
  24. Relationships Become Physical
  25. Evolution as Process Science
  26. Statistical Laws Challenge Determinism
  27. Techno-Science Comes of Age
  28. Institutions Empower Innovation
  29. The Quantum Revolution
  30. Relativity Redefines Space and Time
  31. Recovering the Universe Again
  32. The Idea behind the Computer
  33. Three Faces of Information
  34. Systems, Chaor and Self-Organisation
  35. Life as Molecules in Action
  36. Great Ideas Past and Future
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For more information please contact the Convenor on 01823 284504



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The Convenor can be contacted on:
01823 284504