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Development of Scientific Thought (PS.325 - §101, 2023 Spring => CRN 4371)
Class Meets in :    Science 179 Lab ... Mon & Wed 4:00pm - 6:20pm
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 Lab
Aug.21 Paleolithic Revolutions
Curt Foltz
Neolithic Revolutions
Curt Foltz
penny weights
Aug.28 Urban Dynasty Revolution
Curt Foltz -
Antique Tech in China & Math in India
Curt Foltz
turtle types
Sep.04 MLK Holiday
no classes
Greek Natural Philosophy ≈ Bowler Ch.1
Curt Foltz
Aristotle's Parts of Animals, Book 1
??
Sep.11 Aristotle, etc
Curt Foltz
Medieval Science
Curt Foltz
Peregrinus Magnet Letter
??
Sep.18 Ch.2: HelioCentric Revolution
Curt Foltz
Ch.2. part b: Mechanical Universe
Curt Foltz
Galilean & Keplerian Telescopes
Newtonian telescope
Sep.25 Ch.3: Combustion Revolution
Delaney Geary
Ch.4: Conservation of Energy
Olivia Hindman
??
Oct.02 Ch.5: Age of Earth
Sydney Garrison
Ch.6: Darwinian Revolution
Regan Meyer
??
Oct.09 Ch.7: Cellular Revolution
Kassi Tomblin
Astro from Montanari thru Cannon & Russell
Phys from Galvani thru Maxwell & Edison
Curt Foltz
??
Oct.16 (Gray, Franklin, & Bernoulli ; Maupertuis, Clairaut, d'Alembert, & Laplace ; Fabricius cf Servetus/Colombo/Harvey/Malpighi ; Rudbeck Redi & Steno , Borelli & Grew)
Curt Foltz
Chem from Avagadro thru Mendeleev & Gibbs
Chem from LaChatalier & Curie thru Lewis & Pauling
Curt Foltz
size of a molecule
Oct.23 Ch.8: Genetics & Inheritance
Olivia Hindman
Ch.9: Ecology & Environmentalism
Regan Meyer
??
Oct.30 Ch.10: Continental Drift
Kassi Tomblin
(Ortelius & Snider; Dana & Challenger; Perry & Wegeners; Holmes;
Bernauer & Carey; Vine, Tharp, Oliver; hot spots & slab pull)
Ch.11: 20th Century Physics
Sydney Garrison
(X, α, β, γ to Rutherford & Bohr; Lorenz & Einstein; DeBroglie & Schroedinger; Yang-Mills & Lee, Yang, Wu to Standard Model)
??
Nov.06 Ch.12: Revolutionizing Cosmology
Delaney Geary
(Astro from Messier & Herschel thru Slipher & Hubble to Λ-CDM)
??
Curt Foltz
??
Nov.13 Recent Biology & Geology (Big-Data)
Curt Foltz
??
Curt Foltz
??
Nov.27 ?? ?? ??
Dec.03 final paper due final exam no lab


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