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Name: Paolo Galluzzi Instructor Details NYUHome Email Address: [email protected] Office Hours: Office Location: Museo Galileo Co-teachers: Giovanni Di Pasquale (337 – 1001007; [email protected]) Natacha Fabbri (335 – 6245630; [email protected])

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Semester: Spring 2013 Class Details Full Title of Course: Meeting Days and Times: Classroom Location: Museo Galileo

[Place here any official NYU prerequisites as they appear on the NYU Study Abroad Prerequisites Florence website]

The course will illustrate the fundamental steps that marked the development of science and technology from the ancient world to the affirmation of modern science during the Class Description Scientific Revolution.

On completion of this course, students should: Desired Outcomes • Have improved their ability to think critically, engage in complex reasoning and express their thoughts clearly through their written work • Have improved their understanding of the methodologies of the history of science and technology. • Have mastered a basic understanding of how to research questions in the history of science and technology. • Recognize works by the principal protagonists of the History of Science and technology and understand why they are important for Ancient, Medieval and Modern Thought.

Attendance and Participation: 20% Assessment Components Written Assignments (three 5-page reaction papers): 25%

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Midterm Exam (6-8 handwritten pages): 25% Final Exam (8-12 typewritten pages): 30%

Failure to submit or fulfill any required course component results in failure of the class.

Grade A: The student makes excellent use of empirical and theoretical material and offers Assessment Expectations structured arguments in his/her work. The student writes comprehensive essays/exam questions and his/her work shows strong evidence of critical thought and extensive reading. Grade B: The candidate shows a good understanding of the problem and has demonstrated the ability to formulate and execute a coherent research strategy

Grade C: The work is acceptable and shows a basic grasp of the research problem. However, the work fails to organize findings coherently and is in need of improvement

Grade D: The work passes because some relevant points are made. However, there may be a problem of poor definition, lack of critical awareness, poor research

Grade F: The work shows that the research problem is not understood; there is little or no critical awareness and the research is clearly negligible

A=94-100 Grade conversion A-=90-93 B+=87-89 B=84-86 B-=80-83 C+=77-79 C=74-76 C-=70-73 D+=67-69 D=65-66 F=below 65

Please refer to Assessment Expectations and the policy on late submission of work Grading Policy

Attendance: Attendance Policy Attendance is expected and required of all students. Any absences will negatively impact upon your course grade

Absences: In case of absence, regardless of the reason, the student is responsible for completing missed assignments, getting notes and making up missed work in a timely manner based upon a schedule that is mutually agreed upon between the faculty member and the student

Absence Due to Illness ● If you are sick, please see a doctor (contact the OSL for information).

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● Only a medical certificate from a local medical professional will be accepted to justify an absence due to illness ● Within 24 hours of your return to class you must bring this note to the Office of Academic Support, located on the ground floor of Villa Ulivi. We will review the medical certificate and we will notify your faculty via email about your justified absence due to illness ● Absences for short term illness without a medical certificate are not justified and count as unjustified absences. We will not accept a student email or telephone call regarding an absence due to illness. We will not notify your faculty about these absences ● The Office of Student Life, when assisting you in cases of severe or extended illness, will coordinate with the Office of Academic Support to properly record your absences Due to Religious Observance ● Students observing a religious holiday during regularly scheduled class time are entitled to miss class without any penalty to their grade. This is for the holiday only and does not include the days of travel that may come before and/or after the holiday ● Students must notify their professor and the Office of Academic Support in writing via email one week in advance before being absent for this purpose Due to a class conflict with a program sponsored lecture, event, or activity ● All students are entitled to miss one class period without any penalty to their grade in order to attend a lecture, event or activity that is sponsored by NYU Florence or La Pietra Dialogues, Acton Miscellany or the Graduate Lecture series. ● Students must notify their professor and the Office of Academic Support in writing via email one week in advance before being absent for this purpose

Late Submission of Work ● All course work must be submitted on time, in class on the date specified on the syllabus. ● To request an extension on a deadline for an assignment, students must speak to the professor one week prior to the due date ● To receive an incomplete for a course at the end of the semester, two weeks before final exams, both the student and the faculty member must meet with the Assistant Director of Academic Affairs to review the request and if granted, they must both sign an Incomplete Contract detailing the terms for completing missing coursework.

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Plagiarism Policy PLAGIARISM WILL NOT BE TOLERATED IN ANY FORM: The presentation of another person’s words, ideas, judgment, images or data as though they were your own, whether intentionally or unintentionally, constitutes an act of plagiarism.

In the event of suspected or confirmed cases of plagiarism, The faculty member will consult first with the Assistant Director for Academic Affairs as definitions and procedures vary from school to school. Please consult the “Academic Guidelines for Success” distributed on your USB key at Check-in and on the NYU Florence Global Wiki.

For a detailed description of some possible forms of plagiarism and cheating please consult the Community Compact that you signed at Orientation, a copy of which is on the above mentioned Wiki and USB key.

The following texts are available in the Library of the Museo Galileo: Required Text(s)

KOYRÉ S.A., From the closed world to the infinite universe, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins university press, 1968. KUHN T.S., The Copernican revolution: planetary astronomy in the development of Western thought, Cambridge: Harvard university press, 2002². P. FARA, Interactions, in P. Fara, Science. A four thousand year history, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. 42-90. W. Dampier, Science in the ancient world, in W. Dampier, A history of science, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1966, pp. 1-59.

The following texts are available in the Library of the Museo Galileo. They are recommended Supplemental Texts(s) (not as sources for deepening the most significant topics of the course. required to purchase as copies are in NYU-L Library DRAKE S., Galileo at work, Chicago-London: The University of Chicago Press, 1981. or available on line) DRAKE S., Galileo’s new science of motion, in M.L. Righini Bonelli and William R. FIELD J.V., Kepler’s Geometrical Cosmology, London: The Athlone Press, 1988. GALILEI G., The Sidereal Messenger, Eng. Trans. by A. van Helden, Chicago: Chicago university press, 1989. GALLUZZI P. (ed.), Galileo: images of the universe from antiquity to the telescope, Firenze: Giunti, 2009. GINGERICH O., Johannes Kepler, in The General history of astronomy, Cambridge: Cambridge university press, 1984. HEILBRON J.L., Galileo, New York: Oxford university press, 2010. KOYRÉ Š.A., Galileo studies, Eng. Trans., Hassocks: The Harvester press, 1978. MACHAMER P. (ed.), Cambridge companion to Galileo, Cambridge: Cambridge university press, 1998. RIGHINI BONELLI M.L. and SHEA W.R. (eds.), Reason, experiment and mysticism in the scientific revolution, New York: Science history publications, 1975. SHEA W.R., Galileo’s intellectual revolution, London: MacMillan, 1972. SHEA W.R. and ARTIGAS M., Galileo in Rome: the rise and fall of a troublesome genius, Oxford: Oxford University press, 2003. STRANO G. (ed.), Galileo’s telescope. The Instrument that changed the world, Firenze: Giunti, 2008. TURNER G.L., Renaissance astrolabes and their makers, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003,

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BRUNSCHWIG J. - LLOYD G. (eds.), The Greek Pursuit of Knowledge, Cambridge Mass., Harvard University Press, 2003 CASTAGNETTI G. – RENN J. (eds.), Homo Faber. Studies on Nature, Technology and Science at the Time of Pompeii, Roma, L’Erma di Bretschneider 2002. CLAGETT M., Greek Science in Antiquity, New York, Schurmann, 1955 DRACHMANN A.G., The Mechanical Technology of Greek and Roman Antiquity, Copenhagen, Munksgaard 1963. FARRINGTON B., Science in Antiquity, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1969 GALLUZZI P. Mechanical Marvels: Inventions in the Age of Leonardo, Firenze, Giunti 1997. GRANT E., The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 1996 HUMPHREY J. – OLESON J.P. – SHERWOOD A. (eds.), Greek and Roman Technology: a sourcebook; annotated translations of Greek and Latin texts and documents, London, Routledge 1998 IRBY-MASSIE G. – KEYSER P., Greek Science of Hellenistic Era, London & New York, Routledge 2002 WHITE L., Medieval Technology and Social Change, London, Oxford University Press 1962

The careful use of internet resources is encouraged and a list of recommended websites will Internet Research be given. Failure to cite internet and other non-traditional media sources in your written Guidelines work constitutes plagiarism.

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[Art supplies or other equipment for class would go here. Additional Required Equipment If none are required please list N/A]

Introduction to the main topics of the course: J. Roger, History of science: problems and the idea of macrocosm, the relationship practices: history of science(s), history of Session 1 between Macrocosm and Microcosm. Definition mentalities, micro-history, in “Nuncius”, 8, of the nature and goals of the history of science 1, (1993), pp. 3-26. [Enter date] and technology. The vexed notion of “Scientific Revolution.”

First systems of knowledge: from mythology to J. McClellan-H. Dorn (eds.), Greeks bearing abstraction. gifts, in Science and technology in world Session 2 The beginning of western science between history, Baltimore, J. Hopkins Press, 1999, Greece and ancient Near East civilizations. pp. 55-91. [Enter date]

The golden age of Greek civilization: images of D. Lindberg, The Greeks and the cosmos, in the Universe from Plato to Claudius Ptolemy. D. Lindberg, The beginning of western Session 3 science, Chicago, Chicago University Press, 1992, pp. 21-45. [Enter date]

The Hellenistic age. Separation of science and Ch. Singer, Divorce of science and philosophy. The rise of technology. philosophy, Alexandria, in A short history of Session 4 scientific ideas, Oxford, Clarendon Press, Term Paper I due 1959, pp. 61-101. [Enter date]

Ancient Rome: science and technology of the D. Lindberg, Roman and Early Medieval Roman empire. Science, in D. Lindberg, The beginning of Session 5 western science, Chicago, Chicago University Press, 1992, pp. 133-159. [Enter date] Middle Ages: General Introduction. From W. Dampier, The Middle Ages, in A history Muslim science to the re-birth of western of science, Cambridge University Press, Session 6 Europe civilization. 1966, pp. 60-96. Inventions and craft traditions in Western J. McClellan-H. Dorn (eds.), Plows, stirrups, [Enter date] Europe. Major Figures of Medieval Science and guns and plagues, in Science and technology Technology. in world history, Baltimore, J. Hopkins Press, 1999, pp. 177-201.

Midterm

Session 7

[Enter date] P. Galluzzi, Mechanical Marvels (the

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Renaissance engineers: from Brunelleschi to Introduction), in P. Galluzzi, Mechanical Session 8 Leonardo da Vinci marvels: inventionin the age of Leonardo, Firenze, Giunti, 1997; [Enter date] P. Galluzzi, Portraits of machines in 15th Term Paper II due century Siena, Firenze, Olschki, 1993, in P. Mazzolini, pp. 53-90 KUHN, The Copernican revolution, pp. 134- Copernicus’ heliocentric system and Tycho 209. Session 9 Brahe’s interpretation of the geocentric system.

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Images of the Cosmos in the Sixteenth and KOYRÉ, From the closed world to the infinite Seventeenth centuries: the interplay between universe, pp. 28-87 Session 10 natural philosophy, religion and anthropology. FIELD, Kepler’s Geometrical Cosmology, pp. Johannes Kepler: his three astronomical laws 30-95. [Enter date] and the Harmony of the World.

Galileo’s telescopic discoveries and the GALILEI, The Sidereal Messenger, pp. 25-86. international reception of the “Sidereus SWERDLOW N.M., Galileo’s discoveries with Session 11 Nuncius”. the telescope and their evidence for Copernican theory, in MACHAMER (ed.), [Enter date] Cambridge companion to Galileo, pp. 244- 270.

Guided tour to the Museo Galileo TURNER, Renaissance astrolabes and their makers, pp. 231-244, 421-432 . Session 12 DEL SANTO P., MORRIS J. & R., STRANO G., VAN HELDEN A., Galileo’s telescope, in STRANO [Enter date] (ed.), Galileo’s telescope, pp. 33-61. Galileo’s natural philosophy and the autonomy SHEA, Galileo’s intellectual revolution, pp. of Science from Religion. 107-189. Session 13 SHEA and ARTIGAS, Galileo in Rome, pp. 52-97

[Enter date] Term Paper III due

Galileo’s two new sciences: the strength of DRAKE S., Galileo’s new science of motion, in materials and the mathematical science of RIGHINI BONELLI and SHEA (eds.), Reason, Session 14 motion. experiment and mysticism in the scientific revolution, pp. 131-156. [Enter date] KOYRÉ, Galileo studies, pp. 67-78.

Final Exam Session 15

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● Eating is not permitted in the classrooms. Bottled water is permitted. Classroom Etiquette ● Cell phones should be turned off during class time. ● The use of personal laptops and other electronic handheld devices are prohibited in the classroom unless otherwise specified by the professor. ● We recycle! So keep it green! Please dispose of trash in the clearly marked recycle bins located throughout the on campus buildings

None Required Co-curricular Activities

“Suggested optional co-curricular activities will be announced in class and/or via email by the Suggested Co- professor throughout the semester.” curricular Activities

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