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Certificate of Achievement

Randal Oulton

has completed the following course:

The Scientific Revolution: Understanding the Roots of Modern Science

University of Groningen

This course explored the emergence of early modern science. The course offered an overview on the most important conceptual transformations that the study of the natural world underwent during the period. By fostering a historically-informed reflection on a number of philosophical, methodological and historical aspects, the course contextualises the evolution of modern science within the broader social, religious and historical transformations occurring during the seventeenth century.

3 weeks, 3 hours per week

Andrea Sangiacomo

Assistant Professor in Philosophy

University of Groningen

Transcript

Learning outcomes

  • Reflect on the historical background of your own scientific discipline by tracing it back to its seventeenth-century roots
  • Interpret texts about scientific practices of the past
  • Engage critically with ideas about the overall role and meaning of scientific disciplines and practices
  • Produce a short blog post about the historical background of your discipline

Syllabus

  • Understanding ‘science’
  • Aristotelian ‘science’ vs. the ‘new’ science
  • Experience, experiments and instruments
  • The role of scientific hypotheses
  • Science and society
  • Science, religion and secularisation

Issued on 17th June 2021

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The Scientific Revolution: Understanding the Roots of Modern Science

University of Groningen