- Ad Lectorem
- Historic Periodizations
- Pre-Classical & Classical Science
- Ancient Chronology
- Egyptian Chronology
- Astronomical Symbols
- Observed Celestial Motions
- Stellar – Solar & Lunar Phenomena
- Egyptian Numerals for Integer Values
- Egyptian Contributions to Astronomy
- Babylonian Cuneiform & Sexagesimal Numbers
- Writing Sexagesimal Numbers – Modern Notation
- Babylonian Astronomy
- The Astronomy of Venus
- Horizon Phenomena
- ‘Greek Letter’ Phenomena
- The Pre-Socratic Philosophers
- Plato’s Divided Line
- Plato’s Myth of the Cave
- Eudoxus’ Lunar Theory
- Aristotle’s Syllogistic Logic
- Four Element & Humor Theory
- Great Chain of Being & Cosmos
- Ancient Greek Numerals
- Hellenistic Astronomy
- Apollonius’ Derivation of Planetary Stations
- Eratosthenes’ Determination of the Circumference of Earth
- Aristarchus’ Derivation of the Sun’s Distance
- Retrograde Motion the Heliocentric System
- Stellar Parallax Heliocentric System
- Works of Claudius Ptolemy
- Simplified Ptolemiac Scheme
- Summary of Ptolemaic Astronomy
- Development of Ancient Astronomy
- Post-Classical Science: an Overview
- Chronology – Transmission of Greek Learning to the Middle Ages
- Ancient Manuscript Sources
- Jean Buridan on the Diurnal Rotation of Earth
- Nicole Oresme on the Book of the Heavens and the World of Aristotle
- Physically Real Planetary Models in the Middle Ages
- Late Medieval & Renaissance Astronomers
- The Mean Speed Theorem & Odd Numbers Law
- The Scientific Revolution – Timeline
- Basic Intellectual Strands – The Scientific Revolution
- Copernicus’ Major Works
- Summary: Copernicus’ De Revolutionibus
- Systems of the World
- The Ptolemaic Planetary Model
- The Copernican System of the World
- The Tychonic Model of the World
- Ptolemaic & Copernican Equivalence
- The Copernican System – Periods & Distances
- The Copernican System – Inferior Planets
- The Copernican System – Earth & Lunar Theory
- Copernicus’ Lunar Theory
- Seventeenth-Century Astronomers
- Lysis to Hipparchus: Greetings!
- The Sun Rising – Poets on the World
- The Hermetic Philosophy A Geneology of Knowledge
- The Sun: Hermetic Mystical & Scientific
- Acceptance of Gregorian Calendar
- The Earliest Copernicans
- Major Figures of the Scientific Revolution
- Galileo’s Major Works
- Galileo Measures the ‘Mountains on the Moon’
- Kepler’s Major Works
- Kepler’s Planetary Laws – So-Called
- Conic Sections – Sections of a Cone
- Kepler’s Equant and Vicarious Hypotheses
- Kepler – Astronomia Nova, Ch. 29-30
- Kepler’s Planetary Species Immateriata
- Kepler’s Magnetic Planetary Theory
- Kepler’s Problem – The Second Law
- The Post-Keplerian Astronomers
- Ward’s Elliptical Hypothesis
- Mercator’s Elliptical Hypothesis
- Boulliau’s Astronomia Philolaica – Assumptions
- Ismael Boulliau – Astronomia Philolaica
- Borelli’s Critique of Boulliau’s Astronomia Philoaica (1645)
- Transmission of Ancient Skepticism
- Skepticism Revived – 16th & 17th Centuries
- Skeptics – Erudits – Dogmatists
- Descartes’ Major Works
- Early Learned Societies & Periodicals
- Newton’s Major Works
- Newtonian Mechanics
- Newton’s Demonstration of the Area Law
- Newton’s Derivation of the Force of Attraction
- Halley’s Review of Newton’s Principia
- Requirements for Optional Research Papers
- A Note on Plagiarism
- Thoughts on Writing Research Papers
- Guidelines & Mechanics for Written Work
- Seminar Critiques: Reading – Writing – Discussion
- Select Bibliography