Great scientific ideas that changed the world

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Great scientific ideas that changed the world

taught by Steven L. Goldman

(The great courses, . Science & mathematics)

Teaching Company, c2007

  • [set]
  • course guidebook
  • pt. 1 (disc 1-2)
  • pt. 2 (disc 3-4)
  • pt. 3 (disc 5-6)

Videorecording(Videodisc)

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英語で学ぶ連続講義シリーズ : 科学と技術の発達史36講

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Other title from accompanying sheets (5 leaves ; 19×26 cm) by グローバル・リンケージ [distributor]

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Includes bibliographical references (course guidebook)

Summary: Professor Steven L. Goldman of Lehigh University presents thirty-six lectures (ca. thirty minutes each) on the historic milestones in the various branches of science

36 lectures (30 minutes each)

DVD

"図書館, 博物館などでの館内無償上映および館外貸出しについて著作権者許諾済み"--Accompanying sheets

Contents of Works

  • disc 1. lecture 1. Knowledge, know-how, and social change
  • lecture 2. Writing makes science possible
  • lecture 3. Inventing reason and knowledge
  • lecture 4. The birth of natural science
  • lecture 5. Mathematics as the order of nature
  • lecture 6. The birth of techno-science
  • disc 2. lecture 7. Universities relaunch the idea of knowledge
  • lecture 8. The medieval revolution in know-how
  • lecture 9. Progress enters into history
  • lecture 10. The printed book--Gutenberg to Galileo
  • lecture 11. Renaissance painting and techno-science
  • lecture 12. Copernicus moves the earth
  • disc 3. lecture 13. The birth of modern science
  • lecture 14. Algebra, calculus, and probability
  • lecture 15. Conservation and symmetry
  • lecture 16. Instruments as extensions of the mind
  • lecture 17. Time, change, and novelty
  • lecture 18. The atomic theory of matter
  • disc 4. lecture 19. The cell theory of life
  • lecture 20. The germ theory of disease
  • lecture 21. The gene theory of inheritance
  • lecture 22. Energy challenges matter
  • lecture 23. Fields--the immaterial becomes real
  • lecture 24. Relationships become physical
  • disc 5. lecture 25. Evolution as process science
  • lecture 26. Statistical laws challenge determinism
  • lecture 27. Techno-science comes of age
  • lecture 28. Institutions empower innovation
  • lecture 29. The quantum revolution
  • lecture 30. Relativity redefines space and time
  • disc 6. lecture 31. Reconceiving the universe, again
  • lecture 32. The idea behind the computer
  • lecture 33. Three faces of information
  • lecture 34. Systems, chaos, and self-organization
  • lecture 35. Life as molecules in action
  • lecture 36. Great ideas, past and future

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  • NCID
    BB1243428X
  • ISBN
    • 1598033042
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Chantilly, Va.
  • Pages/Volumes
    6 videodiscs (1080 min.)
  • Size
    12 cm.
  • Attached Material
    1 course guidebook (iv, 252 p. ; 19 cm.)
  • Subject Headings
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