Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/University of Oklahoma/History of Science from Antiquity to Newton (Summer 2013)/Course description

This course explores understandings of the natural world from antiquity to the 18th century. We will explore what people in the past knew about nature as well as why they were interested in nature. Throughout we will ask: What are the different ways that people in the past understood the natural world? How did they explain such phenomena as the motions of the planets, the growth of plants and the workings of the human body? And what motivated people to investigate the natural world?

This course is designed to develop your ability to understand primary sources sympathetically, to evaluate and build on secondary sources critically, and to apply ideas in history of science to the description and explanation of historical events.

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