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.
• 1.6: Greek Astronomy & Cosmology.

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
• 2.11: Huyghens vs Newton - the nature of Light

Section 3: Fields & Waves: from Huyghens to Einstein

• 3.1: Interference Experiments with Light
• 3.2: Electromagnetic Fields I: Static fields
• 3.3: Electromagnetic Fields II: unification
• 3.4: Einstein: the spacetime field
• 3.5: Einstein: General Relativity & the Universe
• 3.6: Theory, Experiment, and Empirical Truth
• 3.7: Spacetime: philosophical ramifications

Section 4: The Quantum Revolution

• 4.1: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
• 4.2: Genesis of Quantum Mechanics
• 4.3: Quantum Mechanics: Basics
• 4.4: Quantum Mechanics: Uncertainty, Measurement, and Entanglement
• 4.5: Quantum Philosophy

Section 5. The Quantum Universe

• 5.1: Nuclear Physics
• 5.2: Astrophysics
• 5.3: Building Blocks of the Universe
• 5.4: The Quantum Universe on the Large Scale
• 5.5: Condensed Matter: the Solid State
• 5.6: Condensed Matter: Quantum Fluids (Superfluids & Superconductors)
• 5.7. Complex Systems & the Origin of Life