- Docente: Marco Beretta
- Credits: 6
- SSD: M-STO/05
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Historic-artistic and Musical Heritage (cod. 0401)
Learning outcomes
The course provides an introduction to the history of science and
technology and aims at reconstructing the main material,
intellectual and institutional factors of the development of
science since Renaissance Europe
Course contents
Introduction to the history of science and technology with a
particular emphasis on the material and institutional aspects of
their development
BEGINNING OF THE COURSE: tuesday, Febraury 3, 2009
Readings/Bibliography
Marco Beretta, Storia materiale della scienza. Dal libro ai laboratori , Milano: Bruno Mondadori, 2002; Alexandre Koyré, Dal mondo del pressappoco all'universo della precisione , Torino: Einaudi, 1999.
For students non attending the course: Antonio Clericuzio, La macchina del mondo. Teorie e pratiche scientifiche dal Rinascimento a Newton , Roma: Carocci, 2005
Assessment methods
Oral examination
Office hours
See the website of Marco Beretta