History of science for mathmos


2012-10-15 16:00: 2nd meeting: before natural philosophy: Egypt and Mesopotamia (Piers Bursill-Hall, DPMMS)

2012-10-22 16:00: 3rd meeting: Mesopotamian 'sciences' and 'science' in Homeric Greece (Piers Bursill-Hall, DPMMS)

2012-10-29 16:00: the beginnings of natural philosophy ca 500 BC (Piers Bursill-Hall, DPMMS)

2012-11-05 16:00: answers to parmenides: rationalism in the later 5th century BC (Piers Bursill-Hall, DPMMS)

2012-11-12 16:00: Answers to Parmenidies III: Plato (piers bursill-hall (University of Cambridge))

2012-11-19 16:00: Answers to Parmenides IV: Aristotle (piers bursill-hall (University of Cambridge))

2012-11-26 16:00: Aristotle on physics, mathematics, astronomy (piers bursill-hall (University of Cambridge))

2013-01-21 16:00: Science in late antiquity: rationality and a new religion (Piers Bursill-Hall, DPMMS)

2013-01-28 16:00: Hellenistic mathematical astronomy, stoics physics, and Ptolemy. awesomeness^2 (piers bursill-hall (dpmms))

2013-02-04 16:00: Alexandrine Medicine - dead bodies! (piers bursill-hall (University of Cambridge))

2013-02-11 16:00: more medicine: hellenistic medics and Greeks and Romans, and Galen. (piers bursill-hall (dpmms))

2013-02-18 16:00: Gelen, and then rationalist medicine and Christian healers. Oops.  (Piers Bursill-Hall, DPMMS)

2013-02-25 16:00: The Trireme (and Salamis): oh, and the Greeks were just a philosophical people (not)  (Piers Bursill-Hall, DPMMS)

2013-03-04 16:00: Today's lecture (Salamis and the Trireme) cancelled due to 21st century mechanical problems.  (Piers Bursill-Hall, DPMMS)

2013-03-11 16:00: The Trireme (and Salamis): oh, and the Greeks were just a _philosophical_ people (not)  (Piers Bursill-Hall, DPMMS)