Announcements About This Course Syllabus Appendices Essays Projects Questionnaire	Essay 1 Using the DSB and one secondary article published after 1980, write a two-page essay on a seventeenth-century natural philosopher summarizing i) their career trajectory and ii) their contributions (or lack thereof!) to "The Scientific Revolution" and/or to natural philosophy. Select your subject from the list in Appendix 1. Add graffiti to the essays as necessary. (To be posted to the class web site by Monday, 30 Sept, by 4 pm) Essay 2 Examine one ostensibly "Newtonian" 18th-century work (from Appendix 2), and write a three-page essay discussing i) the uses to which your author puts "Newton" and ii) the ideas, texts, or methods which are presented as "Newtonian." Be sure to read Schaffer before writing your essay, and consider whether his approach is helpful to understanding the above two questions. NB: You may write either Essay 2 or Essay 5, but need not write both. (To be posted to the class web site by Monday, 7 Oct, by 4 pm) Essay 3 Schiebinger labels her book a "political history of science" [9]. What does she mean by the phrase? Do you agree with her definition? How successful is the book in offering such a history? Write a two-page essay discussing these questions (be sure to include specific examples to support your argument). (To be posted to the class web site by Monday, 14 Oct, by 4 pm) Essay 4 If this biography has a thesis, it might be that Darwin was terrified by what he thought would be the disastrous consequences of publishing his theory of evolution by natural selection. In 1844, he even admitted that a belief in the mutability of species is like "confessing to a murder" (314). Write a two-page essay discussing i) why, according to Desmond/Moore, Darwin compared his theory to society's ultimate crime, and ii) evaluating Desmond/Moore's attempts to link Darwin's scientific ideas to the class structures and anxieties of 19th-century British society. (To be posted to the class web site by Monday, 14 Oct, by 4 pm) Essay 5 Read one of the secondary works on Darwin's cultural impacts (selected from Appendix 3), and write a two-page critique of Peckham's distinction between "Darwinism" and "Darwinisticism" based on the arguments of your monograph. Be prepared to discuss in class the thesis of your monograph. (To be posted to the class web site by Wed, 30 Oct, by 4 pm) Essay 6 Write a two-page essay discussing why you think that Victor Jakob did (or did not) commit suicide. Be sure to consider the significance of the "classical" and of the war for him. (To be posted to the class web site by Monday, 4 Nov, by 4 pm) Essay 7 Find a visual representation of Einstein or a short literary work about him; scan and post to our web site this representation and post a one-page essay analyzing the "image" of Einstein in your representation. For ideas, see *Dennis P. Ryan, Einstein and the humanities (New York: Greenwood, 1987); *Alan J. Friedman and Carol C. Donley, Einstein as myth and muse (Cambridge: University Press, 1985). (To be posted to the class web site by Monday, 18 Nov, by 4 pm)