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( History 40 is 3 units; History 140 is 5 units.) The earliest developments in science, the prehistoric roots of technology, the scientific revolution, and global voyaging. Theories of human origins and the oldest known tools and symbols. Achievements of the Mayans, Aztecs, and native N. Americans. Science and medicine in ancient Greece, Egypt, China, Africa, and India. Science in medieval and Renaissance Europe and the Islamic world including changing cosmologies and natural histories. Theories of scientific growth and decay; how science engages other factors such as material culture and religions.

(Same as History 140A. 40A is 3 units; 140A is 5 units.) The modern sciences trace their origins to the 16th and 17th centuries, when natural knowledge took on dramatically new shapes at the hands of people such as Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, Francis Bacon, René Descartes, and Isaac Newton. These figures and their contemporaries proposed radically different ways to study, understand and explain the cosmos, and they also founded new institutions for the purpose: for example, the Accademia del Cimento (Academy of Experiment) in Florence; the Royal Society in London; and the Académie des Sciences in Paris. Through these developments, the natural sciences began to assume their modern form in several dimensions: theoretical, experimental, methodological and institutional. The course will study these origins of modern science in relation to the political, imperial, religious, social, and cultural context of early modern Europe.