Jerry Lewis and the History of Science

If you're into history at all, this is an interesting read. It's an interesting aside that the course that used to accompany HIST 361 (The History of Science: The Eighteenth Century to the Present), HIST 360 (The History of Science: 1100-1725), is not longer listed on the current course descriptions at SFU. Did they conclude there was nothing worth learning about in that era? Or maybe enrolment was too low. Shame, this is on my dream list of courses to take. It's still listed on the Department of History page though, so maybe all is not lost.

And for the enquiring minds, here are the Wiki articles on Buridan and Oresme.

Jerry Lewis and the History of Science: "

In reality, science as a discipline was stillborn in Greece after Aristotle’s death, long before Christianity came on the scene. If any discipline has been ‘flawed’ due to religious reasons, it’s the history of science. You see, the information about Buridan and Oresme was suppressed for years at the behest of certain elements of the French government, because it indicated a Christian origin of science. The case was notorious in France in the 50’s, (when the info was finally released) and my philosophy advisor (an atheist and Marxist scholar) told me that it was used in French universities of the time as a prime example of government censorship (after I brought it up in class). Here’s the story …

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(Via ThePolitic - Canadian Political Weblog.)