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HISTORY OF SCIENCE
TIMELINE OF SCIENCE • THESE ARE SOME OF THE KEY EVENTS AND DISCOVERIES IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
BEFORE THE BRONZE AGE • THE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD AT THE END OF THE NEOLITHIC WAS A MYSTERIOUS AND EXCITING ERA ON THE BRINK OF A TECHNOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL REVOLUTION
HOW BRONZE BEGAN • THE COMING OF BRONZE WAS A TURNING POINT IN HISTORY WHEREVER IT APPEARED, AND NOTHING WOULD EVER BE THE SAME AGAIN
THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF SCIENCE • SCIENCE DID NOT SPRING FULLY FORMED INTO HISTORY. RATHER, ITS FOUNDATIONS WERE LAID THROUGH THE MILLENNIA AS PEOPLE IN THE PAST, NO LESS INTELLIGENT THAN US TODAY, SOUGHT TO UNDERSTAND AND CONTROL THE WORLD AROUND THEM
THE WEAPON OF THE GODS • OTHER ANIMALS USE TOOLS. IT’S BECOMING INCREASINGLY CLEAR THAT OTHER ANIMALS HAVE SOPHISTICATED LANGUAGES. BUT FIRE, ITS TAMING AND ITS USE, IS UNIQUE TO HUMAN BEINGS. IT MADE US GODS
GREEK FIRE • THE ANCIENT GREEKS WERE THE FIRST TO LOOK AT THE WORLD AROUND THEM AND ASK HOW IT WAS ALL HAPPENING
THE NOT-SO DARK AGES • MANY OF THE FOUNDATIONS FOR THE BIRTH OF MODERN SCIENCE WERE LAID IN THE CENTURIES FOLLOWING THE COLLAPSE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, DURING THE PERIOD OF INTELLECTUAL FERMENT AND GROWTH KNOWN AS THE MIDDLE AGES
THE FIRST ASTRONOMERS • HOW THE ANCIENT BABYLONIANS DEVELOPED THE FIRST TRUE SCIENCE
THE CRUCIBLE OF ALCHEMY • ALCHEMY BEGAN IN THE UNIQUE SURROUNDINGS OF 3RD- CENTURY ALEXANDRIA. WHAT WAS IT ABOUT THE EGYPTIAN PORT CITY THAT MADE IT THE BIRTHPLACE OF THIS MYSTERIOUS ART?
EARLY ALCHEMISTS • THE EARLIEST ALCHEMISTS ARE MORE LEGEND THAN HISTORICAL FIGURE
THE ISLAMIC GOLDEN AGE • AFTER THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, ISLAM BEGAN TO FLOURISH, AND BROUGHT ABOUT A NEW WAVE OF ADVANCEMENTS IN MEDICINE, PHILOSOPHY, ALCHEMY AND MORE…
ALCHEMY ENTERS EUROPE • ALCHEMY WAS A LOST ART IN LATIN EUROPE UNTIL BOLD TRANSLATORS OF ARABIC WORKS BEGAN ITS REINTRODUCTION. ONCE AGAIN, IT GRABBED THE SCHOLARLY IMAGINATION
THROUGH A NEW LENS • THE DEVELOPMENT OF OPTICS IMPROVED WAYS OF SEEING IN MORE WAYS THAN SIMPLY CORRECTING POOR VISION…
MEDICINE IN THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD • FOR MEDIEVAL HEALERS THERE WERE MULTIPLE METHODS OF APPROACHING ILLNESS THEY COULD APPLY TO THEIR PATIENTS
NATURAL PHILOSOPHY • BEFORE THERE WAS SCIENCE, THERE WAS NATURAL PHILOSOPHY
NICOLAUS COPERNICUS • HOW THE OBSERVATIONS OF A 16TH-CENTURY POLISH CATHOLIC MONK SET THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION INTO MOTION AND REALIGNED EARTH’S PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE…
THE THIRST FOR SCIENTIA • DURING THE RENAISSANCE, MARINERS BEGAN TO DISCOVER THE SIZE OF THEIR PLANET AND SCHOLARS BEGAN TO SPECULATE ABOUT ITS LOCATION IN SPACE
TYCHO BRAHE • MEET THE MAN WHO COINED THE TERM ‘NOVA’ AND CALCULATED PLANETARY MOTION BEFORE TELESCOPES
GALILEO GALILEI • THE FATHER OF MODERN SCIENCE AND ONE OF HISTORY’S MOST INFLUENTIAL FIGURES, TODAY’S ASTRONOMERS OWE GALILEO A GREAT DEBT
JOHANNES KEPLER • OFTEN OVERSHADOWED BY GALILEO, KEPLER WAS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT FIGURES IN THE FIELDS OF ASTRONOMY AND PHYSICS
SIR ISAAC NEWTON • OFTEN CONSIDERED THE FATHER OF MODERN- DAY PHYSICS, MEET ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL SCIENTISTS OF ALL TIME
ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK • HE DISCOVERED NEW WORLDS USING HOMEMADE MICROSCOPES
WHEN THE WORLD CHANGED • HOW THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION CHANGED THE WAY WE SEE AND UNDERSTAND THE WORLD AROUND US
ALCHEMY AND CHEMISTRY IN AN AGE OF TRANSITION • THE ALCHEMISTS WERE OBSESSED WITH TRANSMUTING BASE METALS INTO GOLD. THOUGH THEY...