Astronomy 301: Revolutionary Ideas in Science
(Tu/Th 8:55 to 10:10, BX 102)
Syllabus
Class Notes and Homework and Reading assignments
Useful links:
Important People of The Copernicun Revolution Story
Thales
Aristarchus
Pythagoras
Aristotle
The Ptolemaic System
Cladius Ptolemy
Copernicus
Tycho Brahe
Johannes Kepler
Galileo
Isaac Newton
The Geophysics/Plate Tectonics Cast of Characters
Eratosthenes
Leonardo Da Vinci
Giordano Bruno
Nicholas Steno
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
James Hutton
Charles Lyell
Alfred Wegener
Harry H. Hess
Important Figures in the Development of Biology and Evolutionary Theory
Aristotle
John Ray
Robert Hooke (1635-1703)
Antony van Leeuwenhoek
Georges Cuvier
Erasmus Darwin
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Thomas Malthus
Étienne Geoffroy St. Hilaire
Alfred Russel Wallace
Thomas H. Huxley
Richard Owen
Asa Gray
Charles Darwin
Watson and Crick