Introduces students to key issues, methods and debates in the history of science by means of close examination of several case studies of significant turning points in the development of Western science. The critical examination of select primary sources will be stressed, along with the central historiographical debates concerning each case. Related issues in the philosophy of science and sociology of scientific knowledge will be introduced into each case study as appropriate. Case studies will be selected from amongst the following: The Copernican Debate and the demise of the Medieval world-view; Galileo, Science and the Church; the rise of the Newtonian world-view; the Chemical Revolution of the 18th century; the emergence of modern biology and geology in the early 19th century; the Darwinian Revolution; Origins and Development of Molecular biology.