SECTION A
1. ‘The histories of the various sciences are more similar than different.’
Discuss.
2. What roles have religious beliefs played in the sciences?
SECTION B
3. How and why did molecules come to play such prominent roles in the
biological and biomedical sciences?
4. Should we characterise scientific research in the later 20th century as
uniquely ‘Big’?
5. What was more important for modern physics, the work of Einstein, or the
Manhattan Project?
6. How did industrialisation shape science before 1900?
7. How and why did the science of disease change between the late 18th and
the early 20th centuries?
8. How did the scientific career develop in France, Britain and the Germanspeaking lands in the first half of the 19th century?
9. In what ways did exploration and global travel contribute to the
transformation of the sciences in the 18th and 19th centuries?
10. How did natural philosophers’ understanding of electricity change during the
18th century?
11. Was there a scientific revolution in 17th-century Europe?
12. How did early modern medical practitioners define the differences between
men and women?