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Learning from the Past: Drama, Science, Performance

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States21L.016
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2009English
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This class explores the creation (and creativity) of the modern scientific and cultural world through study of western Europe in the 17th century, the age of Descartes and Newton, Shakespeare, Milton and Ford. It compares period thinking to present-day debates about the scientific method, art, religion, and society.

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