Modern culture is a culture of science. Many of our key cognitive and social values are modeled after and subordinated to science. In this course we will examine the emergence of modern science?from antiquity through the end of the seventeenth century?to understand the nature of scientific knowledge and its contexts of production and validation. Our main focus will be on western science, or the way science developed in Europe, but we will also consider non-western influences like the culture of ancient Mesopotamia or medieval Islam.
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