Space: The Final Frontier

Syllabus

  1. The Panopticon
    • Foucault, Bentham and the PanopticonPagans, Jews, Christians: Discipline or Punishment?The Internet and Panopticon
  2. Cosmology
  3. Measuring the Universe
    • EarthMoonSun
  4. Location in the Universe
    • Heliocentrism: Christians, Jews, and Copernicus; The Galileo Controversy
  5. Where is our Universe?
    • MultiversesTegmark Scientific American articleJewish and Christian commentarySmolin
  6. Life in the Universe
    • Drake Equation
  7. Earth
  8. Life Forms and Geology
  9. Neptunism-Plutonism Controversy; Catastrophism and Uniformitarianism
  10. The discovery of extinction: Cuvier, Lyell and DarwinBuffon
  11. Kolbert New Yorker article
  12. Excerpts from Hutton, Cuvier, Lyell, Humboldt and Darwin
  13. Geological ScienceArticle on origins of scientific geology
  14. Continental Drift
  15. Mapping
  16. Mercator and Topology
  17. Continents
  18. Politics of Mapping
  19. Voyaging
  20. Mastering Longitude
  21. Man Made Spaces
  22. Sacred Spaces
  23. Healthy and Sick Spaces
  24. Public Spaces
  25. Home Spaces