Physics and history as a bridge across the ’’two cultures’’ gap
作者:
Lawrence S. Lerner,
Edward A. Gosselin,
期刊:
American Journal of Physics
(AIP Available online 1975)
卷期:
Volume 43,
issue 1
页码: 13-19
ISSN:0002-9505
年代: 1975
DOI:10.1119/1.10049
出版商: American Association of Physics Teachers
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
We describe a novel interdisciplinary course in which history and physics are presented as examples of humanistic and scientific disciplines. The course is offered to college seniors majoring in a wide variety of fields and has three main purposes. First, it presents a historical picture of the development of the physical sciences in the larger context of Western intellectual history. Second, by developing physical ideas in a fairly rigorous fashion, it presents this vital branch of intellectual history without falling into the trap of teaching the non−science students the history of something they do not understand. Third, it presents a historical−philosophical perspective of the development of the ’’scientific method.’’ We have devised a means of presentation which is simultaneously of value to science majors and non−science majors alike, and which encourages them to take a new and much less extreme view of the ’’two−cultures’’ gap. We describe experiments now in progress aimed at extending the technique to the high−school level, in order to eradicate the ’’two−cultures’’ gap at the crucial point in its formation.
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