In this course the scientific revolution that started with Copernicus and culminated with Galileo and Kepler, Descartes and Newton will be studied as well as the necessary philosophical and methodological background information in a historical manner to understand and assess the scientific revolution -including the mechanical philosophy of the 17th century.

It will then move onto in our understanding of the concepts of space and time, and end with the history of the discovery of non-Euclidean geometries. There will also be a small discussion on the dispute between the evolution theory vs the intelligent design theory.