Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: HISTORY OF THE LABORATORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Follows the development of a distinctive laboratory setting and its impact on the credibility and influence of science. Topics include: the alchemists' workshop; amateur and professional astronomical observatories; physics in the Victorian country home; postwar particle accelerators; the corporate research lab; and the "field' and city as laboratory.