I taught this course before in a program for high school students at UC San Diego. I have a PhD in philosophy and a B.A. in philosophy and the history of math and science.

提供的家庭作業
Homework will be optional, and will include some reading and some hands-on activities, such as drawing one's observations of relevant phenomena.
0 - 1 每週課外時間
提供的評估
Assessments based on class participation and optional final project. Additional assessments available upon request.
提供的成績
Grades offered on request.

1. Geocentric Model
Primary: Ptolemy's "Almagest" (espousing geocentric theory)
Secondary: "The Copernican Revolution" by Thomas S. Kuhn

2. Lamarckian Evolution
Primary: "Zoological Philosophy" by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (espousing Lamarckian evolution)
Secondary: "Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution" by Alpheus S. Packard

3. Phlogiston Theory
Primary: "Essays Physical and Chemical" by Johann Joachim Becher (introducing phlogiston theory)
Secondary: "The Chemical Revolution" by Arthur Donovan (Ed.)

4. Spontaneous Generation
Primary: "Historia Animalium" by Aristotle (discussing spontaneous generation)
Secondary: "The Life of Pasteur" by René Vallery-Radot

5. Miasma Theory of Disease
Primary: "On Airs, Waters, and Places" by Hippocrates (espousing miasma theory)
Secondary: "The Ghost Map" by Steven Johnson

6. Alchemy
Primary: "The Book of Alchemy" by George Ripley (classic alchemical text)
Secondary: "Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry" by William R. Newman

7. The Expanding Earth
Primary: "The Expanding Earth" by S. Warren Carey (espousing expanding Earth theory)
Secondary: "Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History of the Modern Theory of the Earth" edited by Naomi Oreskes

8. The Martian Canals
Primary: "Mars and Its Canals" by Percival Lowell (espousing Martian canals theory)
Secondary: "Mars: The Lure of the Red Planet" by William Sheehan and Stephen James O'Meara