HIST209G: The Scientific Revolution in Europe

This course will focus on scientific, philosophic, and political thought from the Renaissance to the 1800s. We will examine how attitudes and ideas within these disciplines evolved, and how those changes had effects across the disciplines and society, as in art, religion, and economics. The course will provide a sense of the wide-ranging and fundamental shifts that marked the end of the medieval period and the beginnings of modern ideas of society that are sometimes referred to as a ‘scientific revolution’. It will also introduce students to the methods and techniques of engaging with sources and writing history, and in particular intellectual history and the history of science.