Prof. David Kaiser
This subject traces the evolution of ideas about nature, and how best to study and explain natural phenomena, beginning in ancient times and continuing through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. A central theme of the subject is the intertwining of conceptual and institutional relations within diverse areas of inquiry: cosmology, natural history, physics, mathematics, and medicine.
Kaiser, David. STS.002 Toward the Scientific Revolution, Fall 2003. (MIT OpenCourseWare: Massachusetts Institute of Technology), http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/science-technology-and-society/sts-002-toward-the-scientific-revolution-fall-2003 (Accessed). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA