Παρουσίαση/Προβολή

(81E006 ) -  Konstantinos Skordoulis, Ioanna (Gianna) Katsiampoura

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Course aim: The familiarization of students with the history of science and the main epistemological currents that prevailing in the history of science and their relation to the  science teaching.

Course goals: The goals of the course are for the students :

•Understand key periods in the history of science, changes in the character of science over time as related to general cultural, economic and intellectual change

• Understand modern trends and key research questions in the fields of History and of Science and Epistemology

• Acquire the capacity to analyze and think critically about the broad cultural, political and social contexts shaping scientific change

• Acquire the skills to communicate effectively on issues of science in historical context

• Acquire the capacity to apply the historiographical skills acquired to new historical materials and fields

• Understand problems connected with the nature of scientific knowledge and the capacity to distinguish it from other forms of knowledge

• Understand problems associated with defining the Nature of Science

Course content:

The Medieval World View 

Basic Astronomical Phenomena and Planetary Models. Astronomical Models. Qualitative and quantitative. “Saving the Appearances.” 

Planetary Astronomy and the Ptolemaic Paradigm. A model of success for 1500 years. 

Copernicus v. Ptolemy. The Copernican Revolution as anomalistic. The equivalence of Copernican and Ptolemaic astronomical models. 

Kepler’s Laws; Heavenly harmony and Pythagoreanism. Reflections on the Copernican Revolution 

The Old Physics of Motion: Aristotle. Impetus.   The New Physics: Kinetics - the ‘why’ of motion. The New Physics Completed. Galileo’s Trial. 

Newton. His life. The apple myth. The Grand Design: Newton's Principia. Contents, Laws, Rules of Reasoning. 

The New Scientific Method of the Seventeenth Century. Galileo, Bacon, and Descartes.

The Legacy of the Scientific Revolution. Considerations and Reflections. 

The Beginning of Modern Physics: Rutherford to Planck  Einstein, 1905 and Special Relativity; General Relativity. 

Bohr and the Theory of the Atom 

Copenhagen, and the Creation of Quantum Mechanics 

The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. The Legacy of Modern Physics 

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Τρίτη 4 Αυγούστου 2026