1 - Introduction:
a) Nature of science.

2 - Remote origins of Science
a) Ionians Philosophers
b) Science in Ancient Greece
c) Science from the Hellenistic period to the Middle Ages

3 ? Knowledge in the Middle Ages
a) Arab influence
b) Scholastic philosophy and the revitalization of the knowledge
c) Precursors of modernity

4 - Scientific revolution and birth of the Modern Science
a) New science and quantification of natural phenomena
b) Importance of mathematics and scientific instruments

5 - Galileo and the foundations of modern science
a) Controversy about the heliocentrism
b) Scientific method
c) Two new sciences

6 - Newton and the establishment of new scientific paradigm
a) Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
b) Newtonian Physics and Astronomy

7 - Achievements and limitations of Classical Physics
a) Celestial mechanics
b) New areas of physics in the 19th century
c) Discoveries at the end of the 19th century and the need for a new physics

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