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 136-358 Inquiring into Science and Technology

Note

All BSc students, except those enrolled in the BA/BSc combined course and the BASc course, can only receive 12.5 points science credit at the 300-level for this subject.

Credit Points

16.7 3rd year

Coordinator

Dr Helen Verran

Prerequisites

At least two 200 level HPS subject.

Semester

2

Contact

One three hour lecture-seminar per week

Subject Description

The theoretical content of the course will be developed through a study of the following historical cases: Galileo, pendulums and the development of modern time; Boyle, Hobbes and the air-pump; Warburg, Krebs and in vitro and manometric techniques; Glaser and the bubble chamber.

Assessment

Two class tests and an essay totalling 5000 words.

Prescribed Texts
  • Shapin and Schaffer, Leviathian and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle and the Development of the Experimental Life.
  • Pickering, The Mangle of Practice.
  • Fujimura and Clarke, The Right Tool for the Job.
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