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history of experimental science

history of experimental science




The
Seicento

Lessons 1-3



The seventeenth century: political events and cultural reference. Images of Nova
finding . New horizons: Galileo's telescope and microscope
Leeuwenhoek.




Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo. Descartes, the separation of body / mind.


Lessons 1-2


The mechanism
seventeenth-century chemistry and physiology (Boyle, Harvey). Hooke. Newton,
between alchemy and mathematical physics.





The
Eighteenth

Lessons 4-6



The Eighteenth Century: events
political and cultural reference. L 'Encyclopédie ou
dictio
nnaire
raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers
. The Declaration of Independence
.


A big question:
the age of the earth. Geology: Werner and Hutton. Biology:
Linnaeus and Buffon.




The pneumatic chemistry and
Lavoisier. The French Revolution and the new scientific institutions.



The Nineteenth

Lessons 7-13

The first industrial revolution
and the rise of the bourgeoisie. Galvani and Volta. Scientists and
Italian Risorgimento.



Lessons 7-8



machine problems
temperature: origin and development of thermodynamics. Electrochemistry and
'electromagnetism.

Geology and evolution:
Cuvier, Lamarck, Lyell.


Lessons 9-10

The Voyage of the Beagle.
Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution. Huxley, Tyndall, Haeckel,
Spencer.


atomic-molecular theory. Stanislao Cannizzaro.
the periodic table of elements. Dimitri Mendeleev. The noble gases.

Lesson 11


Theory of molecular structure. The second industrial revolution: chemistry and electricity.

Lesson 12

The twentieth century
Lessons 13-16


X-ray radiation.
Transmutation of elements. Atomic models.
quantum physics and nuclear physics. Enrico Fermi.

Lesson 13


development of chemistry in the twentieth century. The First World War. The macromolecular chemistry.
Giulio Natta.

Lesson 14

Developments
of chemistry in the twentieth century. The Second World War. The supramolecular chemistry and the impossible
reduction of chemistry to physics.

Lesson 15

substances, materials, goods
, waste. The macromolecular chemistry: Staudinger, Carothers,
Ziegler Natta.

Lesson 16



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