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The Rise of Modern Science

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited StatesSTS.003
Free, no sign-up neededFall 2010English
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This subject introduces the history of science from antiquity to the present. Students consider the impact of philosophy, art, magic, social structure, and folk knowledge on the development of what has come to be called “science” in the Western tradition, including those fields today designated as physics, biology, chemistry, medicine, astronomy and the mind sciences.

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