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Supplemental Readings

Enuma Elish

Epic of Gilgamesh

The Book of Genesis

Hesiod, Theogony

Plato, Republic

Aristotle, The Analytics

Posterior Analytics

Prior Analytics

Empedocles, On Nature

Hippocrates, On Ancient Medicine

Vitruvius, De Architectura

Avicenna, The Book of Scientific Knowledge

Averroes, Creation of the Universe

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

Part I-II, Part III

Ptolemy, The Mathematical Collection

Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies

Galileo, On Motion

Galileo, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

Francis Bacon, New Method

Francis Bacon, New Atlantis

Isaac Newton, Principles of Mathematics

Rene Descartes, The World

John Locke, An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding

Volume 1, Volume 2

Charles Darwin, Origin of Species

Charles Darwin, Descent of Man

Herbert Spencer, A System of Synthetic Philosophy

Textbook

REQUIRED TEXT: McClellan, James E., and Dorn, Harold. Science and Technology in World History : An Introduction. Baltimore, US: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 19 April 2016.

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