HIST 50253 - (was 5302) Magic, Science, and the Occult from Antiquity to Newton

Three credit hours.

Was HIST 5302. A survey of human attempts to explain and control the cosmos from antiquity to the emergence of modern science around 1700, including the contributions of pseudo scientific, occult, and magical world views; internal developments in the history of science; and the relationship between scientific thought and the historical context.