18123 - History of science and technology

Academic Year 2008/2009

  • 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