Lecture 1: The Scientific Revolution: The Big Picture (Preview Content)

Lesson 2.1 Why History Matters: The Conflict Thesis

Lecture 2.2: Why History Matters: The Influence of the Conflict Thesis

Lecture 2.3: Why History Matters: Why Historians Reject the Conflict Thesis

Lecture 3: The Stars in Their Courses

Lecture 4.1: Science in Antiquity: Greek Natural Philosophy (Preview Content)

Lecture 4.2: Science in Antiquity: Understanding the Earth

Lecture 4.3: Science in Antiquity: The Heavenly Realm

Lecture 5: Plato’s Universe

Lecture 6.1: Saving the Phenomena: Ancient Greek Astronomy & the Influence of Plato

Lecture 6.2: Saving the Phenomena: Eudoxus’ Homocentric Spheres

Lecture 6.3: Saving the Phenomena: Aristotle

Lecture 6.4: Saving the Phenomena: Ptolemy

Lecture 7: Measuring the World: Eratosthenes, Aristarchus, and the Size of the Cosmos in Antiquity

Lecture 8: Athens and Jerusalem: Greek Natural Philosophy and the Early Church

Lecture 9: Rome, Alexandria, and Baghdad: The Reception of Greek Natural Philosophy in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Lecture 10: East Meets West: The Universities and Greek Natural Philosophy in the High Middle Ages

Lecture 11: Revolt of the Handmaiden: The Condemnation of 1277

Lecture 12.1: Copernicus Moves the Earth: What He Did and What it Meant, Part 1 (Preview Content)

Lecture 12.2: Copernicus Moves the Earth: What He Did and What it Meant, Part 2

Lecture 12.3: Copernicus Moves the Earth: What He Did and What it Meant, Part 3

Lecture 13: Tycho’s Compromise

Lecture 14: Kepler’s New Astronomy: His Neoplatonist “Proof” of Copernican Astronomy

Lecture 15: Kepler’s New Astronomy: Celestial Physics and the Harmonies of the World

Lecture 16: Galileo and the Telescope: Copernicus Vindicated

Lecture 17: The New Mechanics of Galileo: Physics on a Moving Earth

Lecture 18: Galileo & the Roman Catholic Church: A Clash of Personalities, Not “Warfare” of Religion and Science

Lesson 19: Galileo and the Garden of Eden

Lecture 20: Newton, the Man: Public Science and Private Religion

Lecture 21: Newton, Gravitation, and God

Lesson 22.1: The New World View: Of Animals and Machines

Lecture 22.2: The New World View: Of Clockworks and God

Lecture 23.1: New Sources of Knowledge and New Attitudes about Acquiring It: New Sources of Knowledge

Lecture 23.2: New Sources of Knowledge and New Attitudes about Acquiring It: New Views of How to Obtain Knowledge

Lecture 24.1: New Views of Knowledge: Progress

Lecture 24.2: New Views of Knowledge: Utility and Praise

Lecture 25.1: New Interactions between Christianity and Science: Part One

Lecture 25.2: New Interactions between Christianity and Science: Part Two

Lecture 26: Why Christianity is Good for Science

End of Course Test: The Scientific Revolution: Its Classical and Christian History