HIST174 Syllabus
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Study Questions
  Midterm (Topics 1 & 2)
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Essay Reviews
  Assignment #1 - Short Essay
  Assignment #2 - Essay Review
  Example #1 by Student
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  Example by Instructor




Instructor:
Dr. Stephen G. Brush
Distinguished University Professor of the History of Science
Department of History
  and
Institute for Physical Science & Technology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742 USA

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Last modified:
December 18, 2003
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HIST 174
Introduction to the History of Science

Spring 2004 Course Syllabus Page 9

HIST 174 Lectures & Music

1. Introduction to course
    "Jupiter" from The Planets by Gustav Holst (English, 1874-1934)

2. Aristotle and the geocentric universe
    Thus Spake Zarathustra [Also Sprach Zarathustra]
    Tone poem for large orchestra, Op. 30, freely after Friedrich Nietzsche (1896)
    by Richard Strauss (German, 1864-1949)

3. Possible sites for the Scientific Revolution: China, Islam
    "The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto"
    Traditional Chinese music of Yu Opera, adapted for violin

4. Copernicus and the Heliocentric System
    "The Fool on the Hill" by John Lennon & Paul McCartney
    from Magical Mystery Tour (1967) by The Beatles

5. Kepler: elliptical orbits of planets
    "Mars" from The Planets by Gustav Holst

6. Galileo Galilei: The Heliocentric System triumphs with a new Physics
    "Allegro Marcato" by Vincenzo Galilei (Italian, 1533-1591)

7. Bacon, Descartes and the Mechanical Philosophy
    "2nd Overture in D" by Henry Purcell (English, 1659-1695)
    From the sound track of the film Restoration (1995)

8. Newton and his Laws
    "Trumpet Aire" and "Symphony of flatt Trumpets"
    from The Island Princess (ca. 1699) by Jeremiah Clarke (English, 1674-1707)
    (formerly attributed to Henry Purcell)

9. The Scientific Revolution & The Newtonian Paradigm
    "Concerto for oboe d'amore in A Major" BWV 1055 (after 1717)
    by Johann Sebastian Bach (German, 1685-1750)

10. After Newton: Romanticism and the Second Scientific Revolution
    Fantastic Symphony (Symphonie Fantastique, 1830)
    by Hector Berlioz (French, 1803-1869); Fifth movement, "The Witches' Sabbath"

11. Darwin's Theory of Evolution
    "Rule Britannia" from Alfred (1740)
    text by James Thomson (Scottish, 1700-1748) and David Mallet (English, 1705-1765);
    music by Thomas Augustine Arne (English, 1710-1778)

12. Human Evolution
    "Pomp and Circumstance, March #1"
    by Sir Edward Elgar (English, 1857-1934)

13. Degeneration, Social Darwinism, Eugenics
    "Venusberg" from Tannhauser (1845)
    by Richard Wagner (German, 1813-1883)

14. Chromosome Theory of Heredity, Scopes Trial, Neodarwinian Synthesis
    "Let's do it" from Paris (1928)
    by Cole Porter (American, 1893-1964)

15. Freud
    "Ballad of Dr. Freud" --Gateway Singers at the Hungry I (San Francisco, ca. 1958)

16. Anthropology: Boas, Mead, cultural relativism
    "Bali Ha'i" from South Pacific (1949)
    by Richard Rodgers (American, 1901-1979) and Oscar Hammerstein (American, 1895-1960)

17. Nature vs. Nurture, IQ & Behaviorism
    "Doing what comes naturally" from Annie Get Your Gun (1946)
    by Irving Berlin (American, 1886-1989)

18. Women & Science
    "A Hymn to Him" (Why can't a woman be more like a man) from My Fair Lady (1956)
    words by Alan Jay Lerner (American 1918-1986),
    music by Frederick Loewe (American, 1901-1988),
    based on Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

19. Energy & Entropy
    Pacific 231 (1924)
    by Arthur Honegger (Swiss, 1892-1955)

20. Electromagnetism
    "Annie Laurie" (Scottish song)

21. Einstein's Theory of Relativity
    Sonata in B flat, K. 378, for Violin & Piano
    by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Austrian, 1756-1791)

22. Expanding Universe and Cosmogony
    "Rite of Spring" (Sacre de Printemps) (1913)
    by Igor Stravinsky (Russian, 1882-1971)
    Walt Disney's Fantasia video

23. Chemical Atomic Theory and Periodic Table
    "The Elements" (1959)
    music by Sir Arthur Sullivan (the Major General's song in Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert & Sullivan),
    words by Tom Lehrer (American); performed by Tom Lehrer

24. Quantum theory
    "Play of the waves" from The Sea (La Mer, 1905)
    by Claude Debussy (French, 1862-1918)

25. Nuclear transmutation, Construction of the elements
    "Stardust" (1929)
    words by Mitchell Parish (American, 1901-1993),
    music by Hoagy Carmichael (American, 1899-1981),
    performed by Louis Armstrong (American, 1900-1971), trumpet and vocal

26. Did Science & Technology Win World War II?
    "We will all go together when we go" (1959)
    written and performed by Tom Lehrer

27. Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics
    Violin Concerto, op. 33 (first movement)
    by Carl Nielsen (Danish, 1865-1931)

28. "Science Wars" and "Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge"
    "Make Believe" from Show Boat (1927)
    words by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd (American, 1895-1960),
    music by Jerome Kern (American, 1885-1945)


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