Introduce students to the history of science and technique.

After examining the history of science and technology, students will be able to assess the future development and trends in science and technique.

"Human and Culture: a symbol, a prehistory of techniques, Sumer, Egypt and Babylon. Epistemology and the beginnings of science and technology: a rational understanding of knowledge, Aristotle's concepts (technical and techniques). Science and Technology in the Middle Ages: an empirical approach, a rational approach, modus tollens, modus ponens. Science and technology in humanism and the Renaissance: from Cusanus . Hypotheses and astronomy: Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler. Movement and Cartesianism: Beckman, Descartes, Galileo and experimentum crucis. Rational mechanics: Huygens, Newton, epistemics holistic, analytical mechanics. The hidden structure of metals. Evolution and the Industrial Revolution: a heat machine and arrow of time. The world of atoms and quantum mechanics: quantum time and technique. Artificial intelligence: semantic information processing, microscopic cybernetics. Synergy and ecology."

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Total assigned hours: 65

New material: 20
Elaboration and examples (recapitulation): 30

Auditory exercises: 0
Laboratory exercises: 0
Calculation tasks: 0
Seminar paper: 0
Project: 0
Consultations: 0
Discussion/workshop: 0
Research study work: 0

Review and grading of calculation tasks: 0
Review and grading of lab reports: 0
Review and grading of seminar papers: 12
Review and grading of the project: 0
Test: 0
Test: 0
Final exam: 3

Activity during lectures: 0
Test/test: 0
Laboratory practice: 0
Calculation tasks: 0
Seminar paper: 50
Project: 0
Final exam: 50
Requirement for taking the exam (required number of points): 30

Crombie A.; Robert Grosseteste and the Origin of Experimental Science, 1100-1700, London, 1952.; Dijksterhuis E.; The Mehanization of the World Picture, Princeton, 1986.; Rousseau P.; Historie des Techniques, Paris, 1956.; Dijem, P., Cilj i struktura fizičkih teorija, Novi Sad, 2003.