Course participants will see that each of the separate and distinct ages that are the focus of this course relied on developments and discoveries of its immediate predecessors. The Renaissance at its beginning relied upon classical Roman and Greek texts brought out of Constantinople by Greek scholars after its conquest by the Turks. The start of the Scientific Revolution also relied on those Greek texts at its beginning, especially Ptolemy’s Almagast and the Greek physician Galen’s works. The success of Newtonian physics in providing a mathematical description of an ordered world played a big part in the flowering of the Enlightenment. And it is probably not a coincidence that the Industrial Revolution took place first in England, where the Newtonian mechanistic world view became established.

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