1 - Introduction: Nature of science.
2 - Remote origins of Science: Ionians Philosophers; Science in Ancient Greece; Science from the Hellenistic period to the Middle Ages
3 ? Knowledge in the Middle Ages: Arab influence; Scholastic philosophy and the revitalization of the knowledge; Precursors of modernity.
4 - Scientific revolution and birth of the Modern Science: New science and quantification of natural phenomena; Importance of mathematics and scientific instruments
5 - Galileo and the foundations of modern science: Controversy about the heliocentrism; Scientific method; Two new sciences.
6 - Newton and the establishment of new scientific paradigm: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy; Newtonian Physics and Astronomy.
7 - Achievements and limitations of Classical Physics: Celestial mechanics; New areas of physics in the 19th century; Discoveries at the end of the 19th century and the need for a new physics.

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