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Lecture Notes

LEC # Topics
1 Introduction: The Rise of Modern Science (PDF)
2 The Culture of Experiment (PDF)
3 The Enlightenment and Progress (PDF)
4 Enlightenment Chemistry and Physics (PDF)
5 Romantic Science (PDF)
6 Thermodynamics (PDF)
7 Science and Life (PDF)
8 Empires of Physics (PDF)
9 Chemistry and Industry (PDF)
10 Geology, Natural Theology, and Time (PDF)
11 Evolution (PDF)
12 Social Darwinism (PDF)
Midterm
13 Germ Theory (PDF)
14 Therapeutic Revolutions (PDF)
15 Freud (PDF)
16 War, Science, and Psychiatry (PDF)
17 Eugenics (PDF)
18 Race and Intelligence (PDF)
19 Modern Physics (PDF)
20 Science and the Second World War (PDF)
21 Cold War Physics (PDF)
22 Cold War Medicine (PDF)
23 Molecular Biology (PDF)
24 The Computer Age (PDF)
25 Conclusions: Science in the 21st Century (PDF)