Syllabus
0W Jan. 4. Orientation, math and history 1M Jan. 9. Archeomathematics 1W Jan. 11. Archeoastronomy 2M Jan. 16. (Holiday) 2W Jan. 18. Writing, the wheel 3M Jan. 23. the quadrivium 3W Jan. 25. The myth of Er (Paul Lee) 4M Jan. 30. Quiz 1, Report 1 due 4W Feb. 1. Euclid's route: a medieval journey 5M Feb. 6. The Renaissance (Yates) 5W Feb. 8. The Copernican Revolution, 1473-1610: Copernicus, Kepler (Neyman, Kuhn, Koestler) 6M Feb. 13. The Copernican Revolution, 1610-1687: Galileo, Newton (de Santillana, Yates, Westfall) 6T Feb. 14. Cosmic Order and Chaos, 1700-1710: Newton and Whiston (Stecchini) 6W Feb. 15. Gematria, John Dee (Mishael Caspi, Paul Lee) 7M Feb. 20. (Holiday) 7W Feb. 22. Quiz 2, Report 2 due (in Comm. Bldg., Studio C) 8M Feb. 27. Worlds in Collision: Bruno (1600), Whiston (1710), Laplace, Oscar, Kovalevsky, Poincare (1998), Velikovsky (1950), Wisdom (1987) 8W Mar. 1. Chaoscopy (1980) 9M Mar. 6. Dynamics and history (the future) 9W Mar. 8. Cybernetics (Nilo Lindgren, Paul Lee) XM Mar. 13. Quiz 3, Report 3 due (Last meeting) XT Mar. 21. Final (12:00-3:00pm), optional term papers due.