COURSE UNIT TITLE

: HISTORY OF NATURAL SCIENCES

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FBE 6076 HISTORY OF NATURAL SCIENCES ELECTIVE 1 1 0 5

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR MEHMET KADIR YURDAKOÇ

Offered to

Statistics

Course Objective

To interpret and to understand the nature and to teach the development and the historical evoluation of the natural sciences on the concept of peresentation, arts and physolophical aspects to the graduate students. The interaction and relation of the different branches of science will be expained in details.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to understand the specific rules and adventural concepts of natural sciences
2   To be able to understand the interrelations of the arts and physolophical aspects of natural sciences
3   To be able to understand the historical developments and the relationships of natural sciences with religion
4   To understand the contrubition of the natural sciences to the civilization and community in the point of wiev of humanities.
5   To be able to understand the interactions of the natural sciences with each other and also their evolution, related aspects in future perpectives, expectations, efforts to solve and determination of the problems
6   The basic roles of arts, tradition, law and techniques on society and the relations between them on the aspects of the importance and status of the natural sciences will be understood.
7   To be able to understand and evaluate the transformation from natural research, practical primitive sollutions and their relation with religion/physolophical thougt to modern science and life
8   To be able to understand the independent evolution of natural sciences and also society, techniques and production devices, thinking and jugemant concepts
9   To be able to understand the role of historical evolution processes and scientific accumulation, knowledge to recent planned methodical scientific knowledge basis
10   To be able to understand the scientific evolution and origin of the natural science in the aspects of secure and comfortable life expectations

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Hellenistic Period: Alexandria, Geometry, Mechanic and Hydrodynamics (Arkhimedes, Heron); Astronomy, Medicine
2 Rome Period: Luctetius and Atomics; Cicero and Universe; Strabon and Geopraphy; Vitruvius and Architecture; Sextus Julius Frontius and Water Ways: Aulus Cornelius; Celcus and Medicine; Dioskorides and Pharmmacognosy
3 Europe in Medival Age: Darkness Period; Mathematics (Diophantus, Pappos, Proklos)
4 Islam and East Civilizations: Rising: Chemistry and Medicine: Cabir Ibn-i Hayyan, el Razi, Ibn-i Sina, Ibn-ür Rüşd, el Harezmi
5 Islam and East Civilizations: Retardetion; Materialistic and ideational conditions of the Retardation Period
6 Europe in Medival Age: Skolastic Period: Cathedral Schools, Universities, Translation, Monasteries, Albertus Magnus, Roger Bacon
7 Scientific Revolution Age: Characteristic properties of the period
8 The Period of Renaissance: Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomy, Physics, Engineering: Agricola: Mining, Tartaglia: Third degree Equations; Girolamo Cardano, Imaginary numbers; Servetus: Medicine, Vesalius: Anatomy
9 Religion Wars Period: Stevin: Mechanic and Hydrostatic; Libavius: Chemistry Text Books, Galileo Galilei: Astronomy and Mechanics; William Harvey: Blood Circulation; Valentinus: Classification of Acids
10 Restoration Period: Robert Boyle: Experimental Chemistry; Blaise Pascal: Mathematics and Physics; Robert Hooke: Physics; Isaac Newton: Optics and Graviattional Force; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnits: Differantial Equations
11 Illumination Period: Leonhard Euler: Mathematics; Phylogiston Theory in Chemistry; Joseph Black: Chemistry; Lzzaro Spallanzani: Biology; Henry Cavendish and Joseph Priestley: Chemistry; J. L. Lagrange: Methematics; James watt, Luigi Galvani: Physics; A.L. Lavoisier: Chemistry; P.S. Laplace: Mathematics
12 Homeworks and Evaluation of the Course
13 Student Presentations
14 Student presentations and general evaluation ( Feedbacks)

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Osman Gürel, Doğa Bilimleri Tarihi, Imge Kitapevi, Ankara , 2001.
2. George Sarton, (Çeviri: Remzi Demir), Bilim Tarihinde Yöntem, Doruk Yayıevi, Ankara, 1997.
3. George Sarton, (Çeviri: Melek Dosay, Remzi Demir), Antik Bilim ve Modern Uygarlık, Gündoğan Yayınları, Ankara 1998.
4. Zeki Tez, Tekniğin Evrimi, Paragraf Yayınevi, Ankara, 2005.
5. M. Dosay Gökdoğan, R. Demir, H. G. Topdemir, Y. Unat, I. Kalaycıoğulları, Y. Emlü, Bilim Tarihi Klavuzu, Nobel Yayın Dağıtım, Ankara, 2001.
6. Z. Tez, Kimya Tarihi, Nobel Yayın Dağıtım, Ankara, 2000.
7. Z. Tez, Bilim ve Teknikte, Ortaçağ Müslümanları, Nobel Yayın Dağıtım, Ankara, 2001.
8. Z. Tez, Matematiğin Kültürel Tarihi, Doruk Yayınları, Istanbul, 2008.
9. Z. Tez, Fiziğin Kültürel Tarihi, Doruk Yayınları., Istanbul, 2008.
10. Z. Tez, Biyolojinin Kültürel Tarihi, Doruk Yayınları., Istanbul. 2008.
11. Z. Tez, Kağıt ve Matbaanın Kültürel Tarihi, Doruk Yayınları., Istanbul, 2008.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Fourteen, two-hour lectures backed up with one midterm examination and one workshop and interactive presentations. All the didactic material is preliminary available to the student both in paper and electronic form on the web sites of the Graduate School of Naural and Applied Sciences. The books used to prepare the lectures are available at the Library of the University. Further data and/or information may be obtained consulting the Library of the University also using the new wireless network.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.50 + FIN * 0.50
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) ASG * 0.50 + RST * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Lecture, Discussion, Question & Answer, Field Trip, Team/Group Work, Demonstration, Interactive Case Study

Assessment Criteria

HW * 050 + FN * 050, Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Students will attend 14 lectures and 2 tutorials and 1 workshop on the material covered in this course. Attendance is compulsory at both till %70, but the rules for the attendence up to the students and can be obtained from the web site of Graduate School of Sciences at http://www.fbe.deu.edu.tr/. Course materials can be available from the web site of the Graduate School of natural and Applied Sciences as pdf files.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof. Dr. Mehmet Kadir Yurdakoç
DEU Fen Fakültesi Kimya Bölümü
k.yurdakoc@deu.edu.tr
Tel. (232) 3018695

Office Hours

Wednesdays 5.,6.th hours.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 1 13
Tutorials 13 1 13
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 12 4 48
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 2 24
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 120

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