C. Dyer
Science and Engineering in the Renaissance
Winter 2005
Course Syllabus
Brunelleschi's Peepshow and Alberti's Window: Invention of Perspective
Reading:
J. Field,
The Invention of Infinity
, pp. 20-42 (in the Reserves List; note: not all pages of online paper are assigned)
Brunelleschi's Dome
Reading:
R. King,
Brunelleschi's Dome
Documentary Film Making
Storytelling, interviewing, picture composition
Digital video and editing
Reading:
Directing the Documentary (in the Reserves List)
Sacred Geometry
Geometric constructions using compass and straight edge
Golden ratio
Fibonacci's rabbits
Squaring the circle
Paciolli's platonic solids
Reading:
Lawlor,
Sacred Geometry
(called "Scared Geometry" in the Reserves List)
Time and When's Easter?
Reading:
J. Heilbron,
The Sun in the Church
(called "Luminaries and the Calendar" in the Reserves List)
Leonardo
Reading:
M. Kemp,
Leonardo
Galileo's Telescope
Studies of the moon and moons of Jupiter
Reading:
G. Galilei,
Sidereus Nuncius
Lookup the current positions of Jupiter's 4 Medician moons
Galileo's Physics
Reading:
D. Sobel,
Galileo's Daughter
M. Shamos,
Great Experiments in Physics
(in the Reserves List)