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I. NATURE: The history of ideas about the external order of nature studies by the physical and biological sciences, ideas also present in common usage, imaginative literature, myths about nature, metaphysical speculation.


ALCHEMY

ASTROLOGY

ATOMISM: ANTIQUITY TO THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

ATOMISM IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

BIOLOGICAL CONCEPTIONS IN ANTIQUITY

BIOLOGICAL HOMOLOGIES AND ANALOGIES

BIOLOGICAL MODELS

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES

COSMIC IMAGES

COSMIC VOYAGES

COSMOLOGY FROM ANTIQUITY TO 1850

COSMOLOGY SINCE 1850

ENTROPY

ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURE

EVOLUTIONISM

EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE AND MECHANICS IN THE MIDDLE AGES

GENETIC CONTINUITY

HEALTH AND DISEASE

INDETERMINACY IN PHYSICS

INHERITANCE OF ACQUIRED CHARACTERISTICS (LAMARCKIAN)

INHERITANCE THROUGH PANGENESIS

LONGEVITY

CHANGING CONCEPTS OF MATTER FROM ANTIQUITY TO NEWTON

NATURE

NEWTON AND THE METHOD OF ANALYSIS

OPTICS AND VISION

ORGANICISM

RECAPITULATION

RELATIVITY

SPACE

SPONTANEOUS GENERATION

TECHNOLOGY

TIME AND MEASUREMENT

UNIFORMITARIANISM AND CATASTROPHISM

UT PICTURA POESIS