Great scientific ideas that changed the world
Title:
Great scientific ideas that changed the world
Series:
Summary:
Professor Steven L. Goldman of Lehigh University presents 36 lectures on the historic milestones in the various branches of science.
General Note:
Each lecture runs approx. 30 min.
Compact disc.
"Course no. 1120."
Contents:
Knowledge, know-how, and social change. Writing makes science possible -- Inventing reason and knowledge. The birth of natural science -- Mathematics as the order of nature. The birth of techno-science -- Universities relaunch the idea of knowledge. The Medieval revolution in know-how -- disc 5. lecture 9. Progress enters into history. The printed book : Gutenberg to Galileo -- Renaissance painting and techno-science. Copernicus moves the earth.
The birth of modern science. Algebra, calculus, and probability -- Conservation and symmetry. Instruments as extensions of the mind -- Time, change, and novelty. The atomic theory of matter -- The cell theory of life. The germ theory of disease -- The gene theory of inheritance. Energy challenges matter -- Fields : the immaterial become real. Relationships become physical.
Evolution as process science. Statistical laws challenge determinism -- Technoscience comes of age. Institutions empower innovation -- The quantum revolution. Relativity redefines space and time -- Reconceiving the universe, again. The idea behind the computer -- Three faces of information. System, chaos, and self-organization -- Life as molecules in action. Great ideas, past and future.
Physical Description:
18 sound discs (approx. 18 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 course guidebooks.
Added Corporate Author:
Publisher:
Teaching Co.,
Publication Date:
2007
ISBN:
9781598033038
Publication Information:
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2007.
Call Number:
GC 509 GOLDMAN