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The Rise of Modern Science
Art: Lantern Slide - Cross-Section of Watt's Rotative Double-Acting…, Circa 1782 · Public domain
- Instructors
- Prof. David Jones, Prof. David Kaiser
- Term
- Fall 2010
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 2 readings · 45 other files · 9 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare STS.003 The Rise of Modern Science, Fall 2010, Prof. David Jones, Prof. David Kaiser — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Paper 1
- “Alchemistry” by MIT student Download
- “Alchemy and Chemistry; A Rose by Any Other Name” by MIT student Download
Paper 2
- “Weighing the Climate Change Scales” by MIT Student Download
- “The Impossible Climate Consensus” by MIT Student Download
- Footnotes, Bibliographies, and the Good Life: examples of appropriate footnote and bibliography formats. Download
Final Paper, Option A
- Fowler, A. (chair). “Meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society.” The Observatory 42 (July 1919): 261-262. Download
- This resource contains information related to expedition (MITSTS_003F10_assn4a_dys.pdf) Download
- “A Study Eclipsed by Confirmation Bias” by MIT student (Courtesy of MIT student. Used with permission.) Download
Final Paper, Option B
Lecture Notes
25 files
- Lecture 1 · Introduction · Files Download
- Lecture 2 · The stuff of matter in the ancient world · Files Download
- Lecture 3 · Alchemy and experiment in the Renaissance · Files Download
- Lecture 4 · Textbooks and chemical order, from Lavoisier to Mendeleev · Files Download
- Lecture 5 · Quantum alchemy? · Files Download
- Lecture 6 · The nature of nature in ancient and medieval worlds · Files Download
- Lecture 7 · Exploring, collecting, classifying · Files Download
- Lecture 8 · Evolution and the origin of species · Files Download
- Lecture 9 · Ecology and environment · Files Download
- Lecture 10 · From “natural motions” to “laws of motion” · Files Download
- Lecture 11 · Beer brewing, steam engines, and the fate of the cosmos · Files Download
- Lecture 12 · Space, time, and spacetime · Files Download
- Lecture 13 · Blood, guts and images · Files Download
- Lecture 14 · Cell theory · Files Download
- Lecture 15 · Physiology and experiment · Files Download
- Lecture 16 · Models of inheritance and genetics · Files Download
- Lecture 17 · To save the phenomena · Files Download
- Lecture 18 · Copernicus: Round and round we go · Files Download
- Lecture 19 · The Newtonian cosmos · Files Download
- Lecture 20 · Einstein, gravity, and politics · Files Download
- Lecture 21 · Mind-body · Files Download
- Lecture 22 · Madness · Files Download
- Lecture 23 · Brains in the lab: Experimental psychology · Files Download
- Lecture 24 · Man-machine · Files Download
- Lecture 25 · Conclusion · Files Download
Other materials from this course
9 files
- This resource contains information related to aristotle (MITSTS_003F10_read02_aris.pdf) Download
- This resource contains information related to boyle (MITSTS_003F10_read03_boyle.pdf) Download
- This resource contains information related to lavoiser (MITSTS_003F10_read04_lavo.pdf) Download
- This resource contains information related to smyth (MITSTS_003F10_read05_smyth.pdf) Download
- This resource contains information related to linnaeus (MITSTS_003F10_read07_linna.pdf) Download
- This resource contains information related to darwin (MITSTS_003F10_read08_darw.pdf) Download
- This resource contains information related to aristotle (MITSTS_003F10_read10_aris.pdf) Download
- This resource contains information related to hooke (MITSTS_003F10_read14_hooke.pdf) Download
- This resource contains information related to marey (MITSTS_003F10_read15_marey.pdf) Download
Course outline
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MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. David Jones, Prof. David Kaiser, STS.003 The Rise of Modern Science, Fall 2010.
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Fall 2010 · Open the original course on OCW ↗
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