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Prof. Ronald E. Doel

Department of History
302C Milam Hall
Corvallis, OR 97331
Phone: (541)-737-3469

Fax: (541)-737-1257
e-mail


4 June 2005, 12:50 AM

Renaissance Star Event 27 May was a success (and challenge!]

John Heilbron's talk on the Scientific Revolution 5 May was an extra-credit opportunity; see Blackboard

 Assignments
 Final writing assignment: [click here] Due Friday 10 June end-of-day
Extra-credit opportunity [due 10 June]
 Shorter midterm [was due Friday 6 May 4 PM]
Longer midterm [was due Tues. 10 May in-class]
Assignment 2: what did you find for your team? Short comment on Blackboard due Tuesday 19 April
Background resources for the Teams
Posted below: a photograph of the moon made by HSTS 412 student Tim Flagler from English Cemetery / Smith Cemetery, 'Renaissance Star Event,' Spring 2002.
Tim Flagler photograph
 On-Line Exhibits
 Medicine and Biology
 The Face of the Moon
 Museum of History of Science (Italy)
 The Galileo Project
 Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford
 Website of the Week
Wk. 9: The Newton Project
 Upcoming Events
 Renaissance Star event was Fri. 27 May 9:15 - 10:15 PM [click for map]
 Course Materials
  Reserve Readings
 Valley Library Resources
 Valley Library Catalog
 History of Science Research Guide
 Valley Library Homepage
 U.S. and World Libraries
 Library of Congress (homepage)
 Library of Congress catalog
 The British Library
 Corvallis Environment
 Pacific Northwest from Space
 Corvallis forecast (Weather.Com)

Web design:
WebABCs


Department of History
HSTS 412/512

The Scientific Revolution


Valley Library Catalog

log on to BLACKBOARD

412 Syllabus, Spring 2005
[512 graduate seminar 2005]

Helpful Resources:

Technology in the
Middle Ages

Building cathedrals in the Middle Ages

Scientific Institutions

Leading Figures

Sir Isaac Newton


Astronomy

Newton's telescope

Natural History

from John Ray

Medicine

William Harvey, The Circulation of Blood


Instruments
Thermoscope [copy of Galileo's original instrument]

Patrons



Europe in the
Renaissance



Arabic Transmission of Knowledge

Experiments and Physics

Galileo

Timelines and Other Resources

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