Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: NEWTON & THE 18TH CENTURY ***** Newton was the indispensable starting point for eighteenth- century thought from the physical sciences to medicine and the so-called "human sciences." In this course we will consider Newton himself and then the complex legacy of his thought in eighteenth-century thinkers including Leibniz, Boerhaave, Voltaire, Hume, Haller, Kant, Priestly, Blake, and Goethe. Offered for graduate credit as Hist 562. *****