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SGBS 346 - Revolutions: Scientific and Political

4.00 credit hours
(Same as: SGBN 346 .) The conception of Revolution is now encrusted with tradition. Few historical episodes present themselves as more substantial or more self-evidently worthy of study. Nevertheless, like many twentieth-century “traditions,” our notion of Revolution is not nearly as old as we think. The phrase, “The Scientific Revolution,” for example, was not in common use before Alexandre Koyr gave it wider currency in 1939. This course examines two paradigmatic “revolutions”—the French Revolution and the Scientific Revolution, and the history of their interpretation over time.

Prerequisite(s): SGBN 101  and SGBN 102  or SGBS 101  and SGBS 102 .


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