Date |
Topic |
Reading from Ferris |
| Aug 24 | Introduction. Course Procedures. Film Powers
of Ten Handout on units |
|
| Aug 31 |
Isaac Asimov: Nightfall [cosmology,
myth and diversity] Ancient Egypt; The early Greek philosophers: Ionians, Pythagoreans. |
Chapter 1 |
| Sep 7 | Geometry, circular
motion,
Aristotelian Cosmology. Parallax Sophocles: Oedipus Rex (ed. Greene) |
Chapter 2 |
| Sep 14 | Class will meet in the Planetarium TH
424. Basic Astronomy. Lucretius: De rerum natura (excerpt). [Ancient Rome] |
|
| Sep 2 | Lucius Apuleius: The Golden Ass
[northern
African cosmology in late antiquity] First Physics assignment due Dates for authors in classical period |
|
| Sep 28 |
Film - The name of the rose [Spain, Italy] | Chapter 3 |
| Oct 5 |
Wm. Shakespeare: Hamlet
[England] 2nd Physics assignment due Cosmology in Hamlet Hamlet's Mill |
|
| Oct 12 | Music of the spheres (Video).
[Moorish/Islamic
cosmology] Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo. Kepler's Laws [Poland; Germany; Italy] |
Chapter 4 |
| Oct 19 | The starry messenger (Video) (S. Sea
Islands;
Native American] Donne: First Anniversarie. [England] 3rd Physics assignment due |
Chapter 5 |
| Oct 26 | Newtonian Physics. [England] Andrew Marvell: To his coy mistress. Voltaire: Micromegas [French] Final project topic statement due Dates for authors in Renaissance period Newton's Laws |
Chapters 6, 7 |
| Nov 2 | Pope: Essay on Man
(excerpt). Brooke: Man. [England] Eliot: The Hollow Men. [American] Thermodynamics. Macleish: The End of the World Midterm due |
Chapters 8, 9 |
| Nov 9 | Special and General relativity.
Pynchon: Entropy. [American] Zoline: The Heat Death of the Universe [modern feminist] 4th Physics assignment due Relativity |
Chapters 10, 11 |
| Nov 16 | Beckett: Waiting for Godot.
[Irish] Bronk: Metonymy as an approach to the real world. The Feeling. [American] Final project- first draft due. |
Chapter 12 |
| Nov 23 | THANKSGIVING- NO CLASS | |
| Nov 30 |
Carol Hill: The eleven million mile
high dancer [modern feminist] 5th Physics assignment due Final project due |
Chapters 13, 14 |
| Dec 7 | Gould : Mind and Supermind.
Papagiannis: Natural Selection of Civilizations .... Rusty Schweickart: No frames, no boundaries |
Chapters 15-20 |
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