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Development of Scientific Thought (PS.325 - §201, 2020 Spring => CRN 4718)
Class Meets in :    Science 277 (later, maybe in Sci.179 Lab ... Mon & Wed 5:00pm - 7:15pm
My office:   Science 159 (below ramp to 3rd Ave)     e-mail :   foltzc @ marshall.edu     phone :   (304) 696-2519

Anticipated Chapter & Presenter Schedule

week of Monday Wednesday
Jan.18 MLK Holiday
no classes
Ch.−1: pre-historic development & technology
syllabus , grade components (Curt Foltz)
Jan.25 Ch.0: Ancients invent Natural Philosophy
Curt Foltz
Ch.1: Plato & Aristotle
Curt Foltz
Feb.01 Ch.1½: Greek/Roman Medicine & "Chemistry"
Curt Foltz
Ch.2: Arab Commentators & Medieval Europe Monastic Libraries
Curt Foltz
Feb.08 Ch.3: Early Modern Developments (to 1580) (Curt Foltz)
Ch.4: Renaissance Diagrams in Books (Curt Foltz)
Ch.5 & Ch.6: Heliocentric & causal Astronomy
Andy Prostor
Feb.15 Ch.7: Government & Societies
(Curt Foltz)
Ch.8: Mechanics by Hooke & Newton
Bethany Ratcliff
Feb.22 Ch.9: Post-Newton
(Curt Foltz)
Ch.10: Chemistry
Dylan Collier
Mar.01 Ch.11: Early Electricity
(Curt Foltz)
Ch.12: Growth of Living Things
Coy Smith
Mar.08 Ch.13: Medical Measurements
(Curt Foltz)
Ch.14 & Ch.15: Politics
(Curt Foltz)
Mar.15 Ch.16: Energy as Unifier
(Curt Foltz)
Ch.17: Age of the Earth
Madison Cook
Mar.22 Ch.18: Darwin's Evolution
Coy Smith
Ch.19: Post-Darwin
(Curt Foltz)
Mar.29 Ch.20: Thermo
Ch.21: Radiation
Apr.05 Ch.22: Inheritance
Ch.23: Cell & Molecules
Apr.12 Ch.24: Ecology
Ch.25: Quantum Mechanics
Apr.19 Ch.26: Nuclear Age
Ch.27: Genome Age
Apr.26 final paper due final exam


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