Philosophy for Science III: Bodies in Motion - Classical Physics from Democritus to Einstein Course/Class July 26, 2011

Science is a methodology: a particular way of observing and explaining the world, of answering the one BIG question: What must the world be like, that it produce the phenomena we observe? Part three of this four part series retraces the unfolding of the Scientific Revolution: the evolution of classical physics, chemistry and electromagnetism from Democritus and Aristotle to Maxwell and Einstein. Its a monumental tale of achievement; and by the end of the nineteenth century, we had everything all figured out! Or so we thought

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