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: Greek AStronomy.
• 1.9: Summary & References .

Part II: Renaissance and Classical Physics

• 2.1: Interregnum.
• 2.2: Islamic Science in the Middle Ages.
• 2.3: Science in late Mediaeval Europe.
• 2.4: Copernicus.
• 2.5: Francis Bacon and the "Experimental Philosophy".
• 2.6: Galileo - the Revolution begins.
• 2.7: Galileo - scientific results.
• 2.8: Newton: his Life and Work.
• 2.9: Newtonian Mechanics
• 2.10: Huyghens: his Life and Work
• 2.11: Optics and Light .

Part III: Classical Fields, Spacetime, & Gravity

• 3.1: The concept of the Field in Physics.
• 3.2. The Electromagnetic Field.
• 3.3. Gravity and Spacetime.
• 3.4. Black Holes.
• 3.5: Einstein's philosophy.

Part IV: Basic Quantum Mechanics

• 4.1: Superposition.
• 4.2: Entanglement.