HIST-UA 9135 Class code 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]) For fieldtrips refer to the email with trip instructions and trip assistant’s cell phone number 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% Page 1 of 8 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). Page 2 of 8 ● 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. Page 3 of 8 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, Page 4 of 8 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. Page 5 of 8 [Art supplies or other equipment for class would go here.