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This course involves consideration of the great ideas of science: the environments from which they arose, the people involved, and their impacts upon contemporary and succeeding civilization. Interactions of scientific thought with prevailing philosophical and religious outlooks are considered. Among the ideas and epochs discussed are: the origin of the Western scientific tradition in Ancient Greece, the Copernican revolution, evolution theory, relativity, atomic theory, quantum physics, and modern cosmology. This course includes brief discussion of the religious implications of contemporary science.

CP325 - 3 credits

Epoch Making Events in Science