課程名稱 |
近代歐洲的科學與醫學 Early Modern Science and Medicine |
開課學期 |
99-2 |
授課對象 |
文學院 歷史學系 |
授課教師 |
張谷銘 |
課號 |
Hist3091 |
課程識別碼 |
103E51320 |
班次 |
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學分 |
3 |
全/半年 |
半年 |
必/選修 |
選修 |
上課時間 |
星期二5,6,7(12:20~15:10) |
上課地點 |
博雅405 |
備註 |
本課程以英語授課。第二年外語。兼通識A23*。 限學士班二年級以上 總人數上限:20人 外系人數限制:18人 |
Ceiba 課程網頁 |
http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/992EMSM |
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核心能力關聯 |
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課程概述 |
This course is given in English. It provides a survey of science and medicine in early modern (16th- to 19th-century) Europe 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 two assignments in the form of short essays, a term paper, and frequent in-class presentations. |
預期每週課後學習時數 |
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Office Hours |
每週二 12:50~13:20 每週二 16:20~16:50 備註: Faculty lounge on fifth floor, Hall of Common Subjects |
指定閱讀 |
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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% |
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2. |
Assignments |
30% |
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3. |
Presentations |
25% |
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4. |
Term Project |
20% |
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週次 |
日期 |
單元主題 |
第1週 |
02/22 |
Introduction |
第2週 |
03/01 |
The New Science and Heliocentrism: Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo |
第3週 |
03/08 |
Facts and Empiricism, Francis Bacon |
第4週 |
03/15 |
The Circulation of the Blood: William Harvey |
第5週 |
03/22 |
Rationalism and The Mechanical Construction of the World |
第6週 |
03/29 |
Early Modern Alchemy: Note: Meeting at Academia Sinica |
第7週 |
04/05 |
National Holiday |
第8週 |
04/12 |
Robert Boyle: Chemistry and Experimental Philosophy |
第9週 |
04/19 |
Formation of Modern Mechanics: Descartes, Leibniz, and Newton |
第10週 |
04/26 |
Scientific Societies: The Royal Society of London and The French Academy |
第11週 |
05/03 |
The Enlightenment and Encyclopedism |
第12週 |
05/10 |
Library Research Familiarization of library researches under the supervision of librarieans and instructor |
第13週 |
05/17 |
Discoveries of Electricity |
第14週 |
05/24 |
New Chemistry: Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and John Dalton |
第15週 |
05/31 |
Laboratory Science: Louis Pasteur on Germ Theory and Fermentation |
第16週 |
06/07 |
The Cell Theory: Theodor Schwann |
第17週 |
06/14 |
Group Presentation |
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