Part I: Roots in Antiquity

• 1.1: Introductory Survey.
• 1.2: Palaeohistory.
• 1.3: Early Greek Civilisation.
• 1.4: The Pre-Socratic Philosophers.
• 1.5: Plato.
• 1.6: Aristotle.
• 1.7: Greek Mathematics.
• 1.8: Summary and references.

Part II: Renaissance and Classical Physics

• 2.1: Interregnum.
• 2.2: Islamic Science in the Middle Ages.
• 2.3: Copernicus.
• 2.4: Newton.
• 2.5: Newton's mechanics.
• 2.6: Huyghens.