| August 26 | |
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David Goodstein: How Science Works The Book of Genesis (read chapters 1-3) Helen Quinn: Belief and Knowledge-A Plea About Language | |
| August 31 | |
| Pre-Socratic Fragments | |
| September 9 | |
| Pythagoras | |
| September 14 | |
| Aristotle: Posterior Analytics | |
| September 21 | |
| Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica Excerpt | |
| September 28 | |
| Francis Bacon: The Novum Organum | |
| October 7 | |
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T. H. White: The Book of Beasts (Read "Beasts" pp 7-12 "The Lion") Carl Linnaeus | |
| October 12 | |
|
Amadeo Avagadro John Dalton | |
| October 19 | |
| Rachel Lauden: Ideas and Organizations in British Geology | |
| October 21 | |
|
John Playfair Georges Cuvier | |
| October 26 | |
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Charles Babbage, Chapter 2 & Appendix B William Paley: Natural Theology | |
| October 28 | |
| Charles Darwin: On the Origin of Species, Chapters 1-4 | |
| November 2 | |
|
Gregor Mendel E. O. Wilson (Sorry, no Wilson reading this time) | |
| November 4 | |
|
Francis Galton Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | |
| November 9 | |
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Alan Turing | |
| November 18 | |
| Karl Popper: Conjectures and Refutations | |
| November 23 | |
| Thomas Kuhn | |
| December 2 | |
| Richard Feynman: The Uncertainty of Science | |