Description
Knowledge and Power
Instructor: Adam Lawrence
Video Description: https://sciarc.zoom.us/rec/play/nMJbYDDfNHiyTmAlLhnPY8bGEekRGmWCEeyrlI_GDN3bIIQG7gXQX4lgUvYYN4Qyj9OCoZGTCSqlz1wo.iFLREYi60K8_oC7T?continueMode=true&_x_zm_rtaid=l_mgqJaFT0yE0kCaEYA_HQ.1627745084339.ecc7c617a1acad08552ffed1fcae6f98&_x_zm_rhtaid=439
Short Description: This course examines the history of the physical and biological sciences and their role in reshaping the intellectual cosmology of the world and advancing the exercise of political and economic power by Europe and North America. The physical sciences, and the technologies with which they co-evolved, have been instrumental in creating the modern understanding of the universe around us, yet they have also played an active role in shaping that universe. We will investigate the paradoxical dual role of physics, astronomy, chemistry, geology, and climatology as both interpreters of a pristine natural world beyond the pettiness of human conflict, and as active c