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Stan Rachootin / Mount Holyoke:
The Education of Charles Darwin. How a Scientific Revolution was Born.
Charles Darwin triggered a wholesale scientific revolution with the publication of his 1859 classic, The Origin of Species. Yet Darwin was hardly destined to be one of the world’s... read more
Free TrialThe Legend of Galileo
Instructor:
William Carrol / Oxford
The story of Galileo’s encounter with the Inquisition in the early 17th Century constitutes one of the central chapters in a grand narrative of modernity. The Inquisition, according to the standard interpretation, required tha... read more
Thinking like an Ancient Philosopher Can Change Your Life
Instructor:
John Immerwahr / Villanova
What values are worth dying for? What is truth, and who has the best claim to know it? Is happiness getting what you want or wanting the right things? What is the best government? These were ... read more
Who Was Shakespeare & Why Does He Still Matter?
Instructor:
Robert Watson / Ucla
How can we grasp William Shakespeare – the most powerful and elusive genius in Western Culture? What revelations lurk in his biography, in the conflicts of Elizabethan society, the glories of Renaissance h... read more
