SECTION A
1. How and why has training in the sciences changed over the centuries?
2. Does history show that industrial and commercial growth foster the
sciences, or vice versa?
SECTION B
3. How did new kinds of instrumentation change astronomy and natural
philosophy in seventeenth century Europe?
4. What was the difference between medical and philosophical inquiry in
early modern Europe?
5. What effect did the French Revolution have on the development of the
natural sciences?
6. Is ‘The Age of Discovery’ a good label for the eighteenth century?
7. What do the histories of evolution and/or energy show about the relations
between science and religion in the nineteenth century?
8. How, and with what consequences, has the science of human heredity
changed since 1850?
9. What was colonial about colonial medicine?
10. Why was the oral contraceptive pill made for women to take?
11. ‘The history of ecology shows that it is inseparable from politics.’ Do you
agree? Why or why not?
12. How did science and medicine in post-1949 China reflect Cold War
politics?