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Week 14: 17th-century science

Reading 2: Primary Sources

The primary source assignment for this week is not available this semester.

Everyone has 10 points at D2L.

Enjoy the evening off!

# Due Date Pts Activity Time

3 Thursday
11:59 p.m. 25
Topic2 + Quiz
Background: Without a sense of context, history is anachronistic.
Primary sources: Without documentary evidence, history is speculation
The second of two topic assignments per week involving both background and primary sources.

90 min.

Francis Bacon, Hanover Historical Texts Project: Great Instauration; Novum Organum
William Gilbert
Robert Fludd
Rene Descartes
Blaise Pascal
Air pump (Magdeburg), vulgar idea of nature, Robert Boyle
Microscope, Hooke
Thomas Burnet
Nicolaus Steno
Women in science: Maria Cunitz and Maria Merian

TOPIC QUIZ: The statements are either True or False. When you take the quiz at Janux, you will see 12 of these statements, chosen at random, 2 points each.

T or F ? d.

“The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our soul with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.” -- Blaise Pascal

HSCI 3013. History of Science to 17th century
Kerry Magruder, Instructor, 2004-14
Brent Purkaple, TA

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Many thanks to the pedagogical model developed in Mythology and Folklore and other online courses by Laura Gibbs, which have been an inspiration for this course.

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#	Due Date	Pts	Activity	Time
3	Thursday 11:59 p.m.	25	Topic2 + Quiz Background: Without a sense of context, history is anachronistic. Primary sources: Without documentary evidence, history is speculation The second of two topic assignments per week involving both background and primary sources.	90 min.