HUM3060, SCI3050, SOC3060 - Science and Civilization -Day 9  

 
Text: A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, (with supplementary readings from primary sources)  
     



James Hutton and John Snow: Confronting tradition: thinking trumps non-thinking.

William Cobbett vs T.R. Malthus: What do we know?

Bryson Chapter 20

T.R. Malthus An Essay on the Principle of Population 1798 - 1830

William Cobbett Rural Rides 1830




Linne, Buffon, Dalton, Mendeleyev: Do you have to understand something, in order to organize it and make it work?
Bryson Chapter 23,