Section I: Roots in Antiquity

• 1.1: Introduction, and Prehistoric Earth.
• 1.2: Early Human Civilisation.
• 1.3: Ancient Greece & pre-Socratic Philosophy.
• 1.4: Plato and Aristotle.
• 1.5: Greek Mathematics.

Section 2: Renaissance and Classical Physics

• 2.1: Interregnum & Islamic Science.
• 2.2: Renaissance.
• 2.3: Role of the Catholic Church.
• 2.4: The Reformation.
• 2.5: Copernicus & Kepler.
• 2.6: Galileo.
• 2.7: 17th century Netherlands & England.
• 2.8: Francis Bacon to Rene Descartes.
• 2.9: Newton.
• 2.10: Dutch Optics.

Section 3: "Waves and Fields"

• 3.1 Waves and Fields.
• 3.2. The Electromagnetic Field.
• 3.3. General Relativity and Curved Spacetime.
• 3.4. General Relativity and Cosmology.

Section 4: "Quantum Mechanics"

• 4.1 Intro to Quantum Mechanics.
• 4.2. Quantum Mechanics on large & small scales.
• 4.3. Early History of Quantum Mechanics.
• 4.4. Basic Features of Quantum Mechanics.
• 4.5. Measurement & Entanglement.
• 4.6. Quantum Philosophy.
• 4.7. Nuclear physics.
• 4.8. The Stars.
• 4.9. Building Blocks of the Universe.
• 4.10. the Quantum Universe .