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1 | Chapter and Sub-Section Titles are descriptive only. Authors may propose their own titles as well as additional sections. See Other under each chapter. | ||||||||||||||||||
2 | Chapter | Sub-Section | Claimed | ||||||||||||||||
3 | VOLUME I | - | |||||||||||||||||
4 | Introduction | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
5 | I: The Ancient World (before 500 BCE) – Farmers to Pharaohs | - | |||||||||||||||||
6 | A: Prehistory: Human Predecessors and Tools to include plant/animal domestication | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
7 | B: Mayans & Olmecs - Mesoamerican and Andean Architecture and Astronomy (500 BC - AD 1500) | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
8 | C: Egypt, Northeast Africa, and Sub-Saharan Metallurgy, Medicine, and Mathematics | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
9 | D: Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
10 | E: The Xia, Shang, and Zhou Dynasties of China | ||||||||||||||||||
11 | F: The Indus River Valley Civilization and Vedic Age of India | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
12 | G: A New World: Transforming Egyptian and Babylonian Science | ||||||||||||||||||
13 | Doing History | ||||||||||||||||||
14 | - | ||||||||||||||||||
15 | - | ||||||||||||||||||
16 | II: Classical Period (500 BCE to 500 CE) – The Mediterranean, Asia, and the Americas | - | |||||||||||||||||
17 | A: Mathematics, Astronomy, Aristotle, and the Musaeum in the Greek World | ||||||||||||||||||
18 | B: Roman Science, Engineering, and Technology | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
19 | C: North Africa | ||||||||||||||||||
20 | D: India Under the Mauryans and Guptas | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
21 | E: China Under the Han | ||||||||||||||||||
22 | F: Nok, Kush/Merowe, and Axum | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
23 | G: Mayan Astronomy and Andean Architecture | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
24 | H: Oceania and the Spread of Lapita Culture and Austronesian Peoples through Sailing Technology | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
25 | Doing History | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
26 | - | ||||||||||||||||||
27 | III: The Medieval Period (500 to 1400 CE) – The Golden Age of Islam | - | |||||||||||||||||
28 | A: The Muslim Synthesis - Indian Science and Classical Learning | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
29 | B: Medicine, Astronomy, and Technology in the Islamic World | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
30 | C: Persia, North and Sub-Saharan Africa, India, Central Asia, Anatolia | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
31 | D: Architectural Technology | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
32 | E: Military Technology | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
33 | Doing History | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
34 | - | ||||||||||||||||||
35 | IV: The Medieval Period (500 to 1400 CE) – Europe | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
36 | A: Christianity and Natural Philosophy | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
37 | B: Medicine and Astronomy | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
38 | C: Architectural and Military Technology | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
39 | D: The Eurasian Agricultural Revolution | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
40 | E: Rise of the University | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
41 | F: The Impact of the Rediscovery of Aristotle | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
42 | G: Medieval Natural Philosophy & The Emergence of Experimental Science | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
43 | Doing History | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
44 | - | ||||||||||||||||||
45 | VOLUME II | - | |||||||||||||||||
46 | V: The Medieval Period (500 to 1400 CE) – China | - | |||||||||||||||||
47 | A: China under Tang, Song, Yuan, and Early Ming | ||||||||||||||||||
48 | B: Chinese Technological and Industrial Transformation (to include gunpowder and the printing press) | ||||||||||||||||||
49 | The Needham Puzzle Revisited - Retain this section? | ||||||||||||||||||
50 | Doing History | ||||||||||||||||||
51 | - | ||||||||||||||||||
52 | VI: The Remarkable Fifteenth Century (1400-1500) | - | |||||||||||||||||
53 | A: A New Geography: Ptolemy Rediscovered | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
54 | B: Humanism and Renaissance Natural Philosophy | ||||||||||||||||||
55 | C: Revolution in Technology: Printing and Profit | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
56 | D: Ship Building Technology around the World & Global Encounters | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
57 | E: Ming Explorations | ||||||||||||||||||
58 | F: Sudanic States and Swahili States with Textile Factories and Metal Smelting | ||||||||||||||||||
59 | G: Incan, Aztec, Anasazi, Mississippian, Iroquoian Technology | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
60 | Doing History | ||||||||||||||||||
61 | - | ||||||||||||||||||
62 | VII: The Early Modern Period (1500-1600) – Europe – Phase I: Breakthroughs in Scientific Thought & Technological Application | - | |||||||||||||||||
63 | A: Paradigm shift in European Thought: The Age of Science and Reason (empiricism and rationalism) | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
64 | B: Ptolemy and Copernicus | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
65 | C: The Renaissance of Medicine | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
66 | D: The World Observed: The New Natural History | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
67 | E: Gunpowder and Ballistics in Europe, Impact on Architecture and Early State Building | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
68 | F: Printing and Technological Advances | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
69 | G: tensions between Native American medicine and Western medicine in the Spanish colonial empire | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
70 | Doing History | ||||||||||||||||||
71 | - | ||||||||||||||||||
72 | VIII: The Early Modern Period (1500-1750) – Global Technologies | - | |||||||||||||||||
73 | A: The Gunpowder Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Moguls | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
74 | B: Naval Technology and Global Projections of Military Power | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
75 | C: Age of Exploration—Early Ming and European Voyages | ||||||||||||||||||
76 | D: Africa and the Americas | ||||||||||||||||||
77 | E: public health debates and developments in the Spanish colonial empire | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
78 | Doing History | ||||||||||||||||||
79 | - | ||||||||||||||||||
80 | IX: The Early Modern Period (1600-1750) – Europe – Phase 2: The New Science of the Seventeenth Century & The Enlightenment | - | |||||||||||||||||
81 | A: Brahe, Kepler, and Galileo: A New Cosmology | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
82 | B: The Discovery of Method: Mathematics and Experiment (Galileo, Descartes, Robert Boyle, et al.) | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
83 | C: Bacon and the New State | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
84 | D: The Royal Society and the Institutionalization of Natural Philosophy | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
85 | E: Newton – A Law Abiding Universe | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
86 | F: Enlightenment and the Beginnings of Social Science or Application of Science/Reason to Society | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
87 | G: Social Sciences: Economics and Perfecting Humans | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
88 | H: Encyclopedias: Botany and Books (Linnaeus and Diderot) | ||||||||||||||||||
89 | H: Proposed Supplement - Relationship between Linneaus and Johann Beckman, founder of Technologie | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
90 | I: Physical Science and Technology - covering chemistry and the increasingly instrumental use of science, particularly of chemistry; the new “practical scientist” | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
91 | J: The Golden Age of Scientific Exploration - Banks, Humboldt, Mason/Dixon and the Transit of Venus | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
92 | K: The Construction of Racial Science | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
93 | Other - Benjamin Guyer will provide a little on the history and develoment of ecology and its 17th and 18th century roots as tied to technology and applied science. | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
94 | Doing History | ||||||||||||||||||
95 | - | ||||||||||||||||||
96 | VOLUME III | - | |||||||||||||||||
97 | X: The Industrial Age (1750 - ca. 1800) – Phase 1: Energy and Transportation | - | |||||||||||||||||
98 | A: Why did the Industrial Revolution occur in Europe? | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
99 | B: Coal | ✅ | |||||||||||||||||
100 | C: Malthus and Demography | ✅ |