HISTORY 135C

Department of History
University of California, Irvine
 Instructor:    Dr. Barbara J. Becker

Week 8.  Cosmological Questions.

Supplementary readings for Week 8's lectures include excerpts from:

  • Natural History:  General and Particular, vol I (1749), by Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788)
  • Universal Natural History and Theory of Heaven (1755), by Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
  • The System of the World (1796), by Pierre-Simon de Laplace (1749-1827)

 
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