History of Science: Antiquity to 1700

Babylonians, Egyptians, and Greeks (1x2)

Date de diffusion: Jan 01, 2003

This lecture explores the origins of man's study of the natural world. The Babylonians, with their complex mathematics and astronomical observations, and the Egyptians are considered first. We proceed to the earliest Greek thinkers and consider their first "scientific" theories about the natural world and how these were distinct from earlier ways of envisioning and conceptualizing the world.