A timeline with a few key figures to start you off -- you might want to print this and
update it as we go along.
Key to my grading marks.
Retrograde Motion of the Planets (animated images and text).
Greek and Roman Medicine (images).
Natural Philosophy in Islam (images).
Renaissance Anatomy and Linear Perspective (images and diagrams).
You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to access some of these files.
General Web Sources of Interest to Liberal Studies Students
MIT Classics on the Web
Internet Public Library, online access to many great texts
The Perseus Project, texts, images, and more
The Catholic Encyclopedia, A vast collection of articles on the historical development and impact of the Catholic Church, Catholicism, and important historical Catholic figures.
The Enjoyment of Music
Specific Sites Pertinent to 302A:
Herodotus on History
Thucydides on the
Peloponnesian War
Greek Astronomy
Plato:
Plato's Life
Plato's Republic
Plato's Timaeus
Plato's Matter Theory
Plato's Cosmology
Eudoxus
Aristotle:
Aristotle's Life
Aristotle's On the Heavens
Aristotle's Physics
Aristotle's The History of Animals
Archimedes:
PBS Nova Episode on a recently recovered Archimedes text.