Antiquity, Middle Ages and the Renaissance: with the constellations, annals of animal life and the atom

Antiquity:
-the Alexandrian School
-Archimedes was an outstanding mathematician
-Roman contributions
-Medicine men and rational physicians
-the decline of ancient science

The Middle Ages:
-the early period
-Arab standard bearers of scientific learning
-the name algebra comes from the Arabic
-the flowering of medieval thought
-the rise of European universities
-Aristotle's influence on medieval thought
-a daring friar of Oxford
-Bacon believed in experimentation
-Science wedded to tradition
-the goals of the alchemists
-the school of medicine at Salerno
-progress in the practical arts

Renaissance:
-the new learning
-the age of discovery
-first fruits of the new science
-Paracelsus' teachings contained much folly
-the revolution in astronomy
-the rediscovery of anatomy

The constellations:
-Greek alphabet
-the beautiful constellation Lyra

The annals of animal life:
-the story told by fossils in the rocks
-pre Cambrian time
-the Paleozoic era
-the Mesozoic era
-the Cenozoic era

Inside the atom:
-the contributions of John Dalton to Atomic Theory
-the electron is an important atomic particle
-the shells that are occupied by the electrons of an atom
-isotopes, different kinds of atoms in a single element
-the many subatomic particles
-important subatomic particles