General information

Course type LAS
Module title History of crucial scientific discoveries
Language English
Module lecturer prof. Katarzyna Pękacka-Falkowska
Lecturer's email rozanus@amu.edu.pl
Lecturer position
Faculty Faculty of History
Semester 2025/2026 (summer)
Duration 30
ECTS 2
USOS code 18-S1LAA06-P02982

Timetable

Module aim (aims)

to familiarize students with groundbreaking discoveries in the field of science(mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine) and its methodological specificity

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)

Syllabus

1. History of scientific breakthroughs in mathematics.
2. History of scientific breakthroughs in physics.
3. History of scientific breakthroughs in chemistry.
4. History of scientific breakthroughs in biology.
5. History of scientific breakthroughs in medicine.

Reading list

Obligatory
  1. Bernal J.D., Science in History, vol. 1-4, Penguin Books, 1965.
  2. tefan Amsterdamski, Between History and Method. Disputes about the Rationality of Science, Boston Studies in Philosophy of Science, vol 145, 1992.
Optional
  1. Boyer C.B., Merzbach U.C., A History of Mathematics, New York 2011.
  2. Buchwald J.Z., Fox R., The Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics, Oxford 2013.
  3. Morange M., A History of Biology, Princeton 2021.
  4. Maciej Eder, Mind your corpus: systematic errors in authorship attribution, Literary and linguistic computing, 28:4, 2013, 603-614.