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• Syllabus

• Lectures
• 01. PreSocratics, Plato
• 02. Plato's Cosmology
• 03. Aristotle
• 04. Plotinus
• 05. Hermetic Corpus
• 06. Ficino
• 07. Pico
• 08. Galen & Paracelsus
• 09. Forman I
• 10. Forman II
• 11. Forman III
• 12. Forman IV
• 13. Ptolemy & Copernicus
• 14. Galileo & Telescope
  
• 15. Galileo on Motion
  
• 16. Kepler
• 17. Mechanical Philosophy
• 18. Cambridge Platonists
  
• 19. Newton
  

• Study guide questions
• 01. Presocratics, Plato
• 02. Aristotle
• 03. Plotinus, Hermetic Corpus
• 04. Ficino, Pico
• 05. Galen, Paracelsus
• 06. Forman
• 07. Copernicus, Ptolemy, Galileo
• 08. Kepler, Descartes, Mechanical Philosophy
• 09. More, Cambridge Platonists
• 10. Newton
  

• Paper topics

• Guide to Writing Philosophical Essays
  

• Lactantius on Hermes Trismegistus
• Augustine on Hermes Trismegistus
• Pico's Conclusions:  Selections
• Galileo on Motion
• Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion
• Descartes' Physics
• Laws of Motion:  Descartes &  Newton

• Relevant articles in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
• "Ancient Atomism"
• "Plato's Timaeus"
• "Aristotle's Metaphysics"
  
• "Plotinus"
• "Ancient Theories of Soul"
• "Giovanni Pico della Mirandola"
• "Nicolaus Copernicus"
  
• "Galileo Galilei"
  
• "Cambridge Platonists"
• "Descartes' Physics"
  
• "Newton on Space, Time and Motion"
• Mark Cohen's Ancient Philosophy lecture notes
• Richard Hatch's History of Science study guide