1. Plato:
Reading: Timaeus
Commentary: Plato and Introduction
2. Euclid:
Reading: The Elements
Commentary: Euclid
4. Aristotle:
Reading: Physics
Reading: On the Heavens
Commentary: Aristotle
5. Commentary: Aristotle to Descartes
6. Descartes:
Reading: The Principles of Philosophy
Commentary: Descartes
7. Newton:
Readings: De Gravitatione
Reading: Principia
Commentary: Newton
8. Leibniz and Clarke:
Reading: The Correspondence
Commentary: Leibniz and Clarke
9. Berkeley and Mach:
Reading: Berkeley’s De Motu
Reading: Mach’s The Science of Mechanics
Commentary: Berkeley and Mach
10. Commentary: Spacetime
11. Kant and Handedness:
Reading: On the Ultimate Foundation of the Differentiation of Regions in Space
Commentary: Kant and Handedness
12. Kant:
Reading: Critique of Pure Reason
Commentary: Kant
13. Poincaré:
Reading: Science and Hypothesis
Commentary: Poincaré
14. Einstein:
Reading: The Problem of Space, Ether and the Field in Physics
Commentary: Einstein and Conclusion