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What is the world made of? Answers to this question have historically been
classified as "chemistry," so Natural Sciences 1 is a course in which you will
learn to think and reason about matter in ways that scientists have done in
various historical periods. Beginning with the Ancient Greek philosophers,
you will puzzle over why Thales believed that matter is composed of a single
element while Empedocles understood there to be four. After surveying
ancient and modern ways of thinking about matter, you will consider the
logic behind our contemporary model: Mendeleev’s periodic table of some
ninety-odd elements ordered in terms of weight. Readings also include texts
by Aristotle, Lucretius, Blaise Pascal, Francis Bacon, Joseph Gay-Lussac,
John Dalton, Stanislao Cannizzaro, Amedeo Avo-gadro, and James Joule.


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