From owner-cse584-sp07-list@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Tue Jan 23 10:35:53 2007 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:35:52 -0500 (EST) for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:35:44 -0500 (EST) 10:35:41 -0500 Delivered-To: cse584-sp07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:35:39 -0500 (EST) cse584-sp07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:35:39 -0500 (EST) X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-PM-EL-Spam-Prob: : 7% Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:35:39 -0500 Reply-To: "William J. Rapaport" From: "William J. Rapaport" Subject: ON THE ORIGINS OF SCIENCE To: CSE584-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SUBJ_ALL_CAPS X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.6, clamav-milter version 0.88.6 on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Status: Clean ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: ON THE ORIGINS OF SCIENCE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Our next topic will be "What is science?". Here's a link to an interesting book review that discusses some of the origins of science. In particular, I suggest (that's the 4th ranking, after "required", "strongly recommended", and "recommended" :-) that you take a look at the paragraph that discusses Galileo and Descartes. Dyson, Freeman (2006), "Writing Nature's Greatest Book", New York Review of Books 53(16) (19 October). On the Web at: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19458 or locally at: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/584/S07/dyson06-nyrb.pdf