課程資訊
課程名稱
近代歐洲的科學與醫學
EARLY MODERN SCIENCE AND MEDICINE 
開課學期
97-2 
授課對象
 
授課教師
張谷銘 
課號
Hist3091 
課程識別碼
103E51320 
班次
 
學分
全/半年
半年 
必/選修
選修 
上課時間
星期二6,7,8(13:20~16:20) 
上課地點
文20 
備註
本課程以英語授課。充抵歷史一、歷史二。兼通識A23。。A23*:歷史思維、世界文明領域。可充抵通識
限學士班二年級以上
總人數上限:45人
外系人數限制:20人 
Ceiba 課程網頁
http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/972EMSM 
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課程概述

This course is given in English. It gives an introductory survey to early modern science and medicine through close reading of selective primary materials.  

課程目標
1. To help students gain first-hand knowledge of early modern science and medicine through primary reading and critical exchanges in class.
2. To sharpen students' ability to think, express, argue, and write.  
課程要求
This course requires close reading, active and heavy discussion. Lecture will be minimal. There will be three assignments in the form of short essays, and frequent in-class presentations. 
預期每週課後學習時數
 
Office Hours
每週二 17:20~17:50
每週二 13:40~14:10 備註: 歷史系第一研究室 
指定閱讀
 
參考書目
Important Reference Work and Databases of Original Texts:
1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
2. Early English Books Online, http://eebo.chadwyck.com/ (books published in
Britain from the beginning of print to 1700)
3. Eighteenth Century Collection Online,
http://find.galegroup.com/menu/start?prod=ECCO&userGroupName=twnsc013 (books
published in Britain from 1701-1800) 
評量方式
(僅供參考)
 
No.
項目
百分比
說明
1. 
Class participation 
25% 
 
2. 
Assignments 
30% 
 
3. 
Presentations 
25% 
 
4. 
Term Paper 
20% 
 
 
課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
第1週
02/17  Introduction 
第2週
02/24  Background I: Classical and Medieval Science of Motion and Cosmology
Aristotle, Physics, Book 3 
第3週
03/03  Background II: Classical and Medieval Legacy in Medicine
Hippocrates: "On Airs, Waters, and Places"
Galen, On the Anatomical Procedures & On the Natural Faculties 
第4週
03/10  Empiricism and Collection of Facts
Francis Bacon, The Great Instauration, pp. 1-32 
第5週
03/17  The New Science and Heliocentrism
Galileo, "Galileo's Considerations on the Copernican Opinion," in The Galileo Affair: A Documentary History, pp. 70-86 
第6週
03/24  The Circulation of the Blood
William Harvey, De motu cordis, in Anatomical Exercises …, pp. 35-67 
第7週
03/31  Alchemy
Joan Baptiste van Helmont, "The Author's Studies," "The Elements," "Life Eternal," and "The Tree of Life," in Van Helmont's Works 
第8週
04/07  The Mechanical Philosophy
Robert Boyle, The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle. , Vol. 3 of 6, pp. 18-40, http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?dd=0&locID=twnsc183&d1=0730400103&srchtp=a&aa=AND&a1=works&c=16&SU=All&a0=boyle%2C+robert&docNum=CW114952823&vrsn=1.0&al=All&af=RN&a5=A0&ab=AND&ste=10&dc=tiPG&stp=Author&d4=0.33&a6=TI&n=10&tiPG=1 
第9週
04/14  Scientific Societies Thomas Sprat, The History of The Royal-Society of London, for the Improving of Natural Knowledge (1667) pp. 58-63, 67-71, 76-86, 91-99, 109-115 
第10週
04/21  Natural History Carl Linnaeus, Reflections on the Study of Nature (http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?vrsn=1.0&dd=0&af=BN&locID=twnsc183&srchtp=a&SU=0LRM&c=1&ste=10&d4=0.33&stp=Author&dc=tiPG&n=10&docNum=CW109080799&ae=N022891&tiPG=1) 
第11週
04/28  The Enlightenment and Encyclopedism Diderot, "Prospectus" in Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot, 106-40 
第12週
05/05  Library Research Familiarization of library researches under the supervision of librarieans and instructor  
第13週
05/12  Probability
Pierre Simon Laplace, A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities, pp. 1-25
(http://www.archive.org/download/philosophicaless00lapliala/philosophicaless00lapliala.pdf) 
第14週
05/19  New Chemistry
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Elements of Chemistry, Preface xiii-xxxvii, 32-53
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?locID=twnsc183&d1=0762400100&a1=elements&c=1&d2=2&vrsn=1.0&h2=1&af=RN&a5=A0&ste=10&a6=TI&d5=d6&dd=0&srchtp=a&aa=AND&SU=All&a0=lavoisier&docNum=CW3309285968&al=All&ab=AND&d6=2&stp=Author&dc=tiPG&d4=0.33&n=10 
第15週
05/26  Progress of Geology
Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology, 67-87
 
第16週
06/01  The Cell Theory
Theodor Schwann, Microscopical Researches …, pp. 73-81, 130-53
(http://www.archive.org/download/microscopicalres00schw/microscopicalres00schw_bw.pdf) 
第16週
06/02  The Cell Theory
Theodor Schwann, Microscopical Researches …, pp. 73-81, 130-53
(http://www.archive.org/download/microscopicalres00schw/microscopicalres00schw_bw.pdf) 
第17週
6/9  Group Presentation