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### Spring, 2016

  [### History of Science 252. Sciences of History

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

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 **Year offered:**  2016 

 

 What is historical method, in what sense might history be a science, and what relations have particular historical movements maintained with the natural sciences? Proposed answers to these questions have varied a great deal over time, in part according to changing... 

 

  



### Spring, 2015

  [### History of Science 185. Communicating Science: From Print Culture to Cybersocieties

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

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 **Year offered:**  2015 

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 **Link:** [Course Website](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-20399) 

 

 Science doesn't just happen in the lab. Scientific results have to be communicated among scientists, and to the public. This course investigates the ways in which scientific knowledge circulates, and pays special attention to how new communications media have shaped... 

 

   [### History of Science 282. Genre and Knowledge

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 **Semester:**   Spring 

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 **Year offered:**  2015 

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 **Link:** [Course Website](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-65834) 

 

 How and to what extent is knowledge shaped by the forms and genres through which it has been produced? Bringing history of science and technology together with media studies, book history, and cultural theory, we will consider histories and theories of representation... 

 

  



### Fall, 2015

  [### History of Science 100: Knowing the World

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 **Semester:**   Fall 

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 **Year offered:**  2015 

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 **Link:** [Course Website](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-0905) 

 

 What are the origins of modern science and of the scientific method? Have the ways of knowing the world of different cultures and societies changed over time? How has scientific knowledge been related to other enterprises such as art, religion, literature, and commerce? We... 

 

   [### History of Science 200. Studying the History of Science

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 **Semester:**   Fall 

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 **Year offered:**  2015 

 

  



### Fall, 2011

  [### History of Science 282. Communications Media in the Sciences

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 **Semester:**   Fall 

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 **Year offered:**  2011 

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 **Link:** [Course Website](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-20399) 

 

 This seminar will investigate how and to what extent knowledge is shaped by the communication practices and media through which it has been produced, from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century. The last decade has seen a convergence of concerns in book and media... 

 

  



  [### History of Science 165. The Scientific Revolution

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 **Year offered:**  2011 

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 **Link:** [Course Website](http://isites.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-71921) 

 

 Before the emergence of modern science, knowing about the natural world was generally the domain of people called natural philosophers. In early modern Europe, what it meant to engage in this activity, even what nature was understood to be, underwent so many radical...