Part I: Roots in Antiquity

• 1.1: History of the Earth.
• 1.2: Early Civilisation.
• 1.3: Ancient Greece- the Pre-Socratics.
• 1.4: Plato & Aristotle.
• 1.5: Greek Mathematics.

Part II: Renaissance & Classical Mechanics

• 2.1: Interregnum: Islamic Science.
• 2.2: The Italian Renaissance.
• 2.3: Renaissance- Catholic Church.
• 2.4: Reformation & Counter-Reformation.
• 2.5: Planetary Orbits- from Copernicus to Kepler.
• 2.6: Galileo.
• 2.7: Netherlands and England in the 17th century.
• 2.8: Experimental vs. rational approaches: Bacon, Descartes and Spinoza.
• 2.9: Newton.
• 2.10: Dutch Optics- Huyghens and Leeuwenhoek.

Part III: Waves, Fields, and Spacetime

• 3.1: Wave theory of Light.
• 3.2: The Electromagnetic Field.
• 3.3: General Relativity.
• 3.4: Gravity and Cosmology.

Part IV: The Quantum Revolution

• 4.1: Introduction to the Quantum world.
• 4.2: Quantum phenomena from Large to Small scales.
• 4.3: The early history of Quantum Mechanics.
• 4.4: Quantum Mechanics - basic structure.
• 4.5: Quantum Mechanical measurements, uncertainty, and Entanglement.
• 4.6: Quantum Philosophy.
• 4.7: Nuclear Physics - fission, fusion, and the stars.
• 4.8: Particles to Strings- the building blocks of Nature.
• 4.9: The early universe.