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The Board of History and Philosophy of Science give notice that the prescribed sources for the essay component of the Natural Sciences Tripos, Part II, in History and Philosophy of Science, 2003-04, are as follows:
| Paper 1. | J. Kepler, A Defence of Tycho against Ursus C. Ptolemy, The Almagest, Book 1, Chapters 1-9 | |
| Paper 2. | R. Hooke, Micrographia (1665) | |
| Paper 3. | J. Tyndall, Belfast Address (1874) | |
| Paper 4. | S. J. Gould and R. C. Lewontin 'The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm', Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 205, pp. 581-98 | |
| Paper 5. | G. E. M. Anscombe, 'Mr Truman's Degree', in Collected Philosophical Papers, Vol. 3 R. Carson, Silent Spring, Houghton Mifflin (1962) | |
| Paper 6. | S. Freud, 'The Psychology of the Dream Processes', The Interpretation of Dreams, Chapter 7 | |
| Paper 7. | J. Graunt, Natural and Political Observations ä upon the Bills of Mortality (1672) | |
| Paper 8. | R. Koch, 'The Aetiology of Tuberculosis' (1882), in K.Codell Carter, Essays of Robert Koch (1987) | |
Each source will have four hours of seminars. The seminars for each source will be held in the first half of Michaelmas Term 2003. Candidates are advised to attend seminars for four Primary Sources. These will normally be those sources associated with the three papers they are offering plus one other. Candidates will be required to write essays on two sources, which must be submitted to the Examiners at the division of Lent Term. Each essay should be not more than 3,000 words in length (including footnotes, but excluding bibliography).
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Cambridge University Reporter, 29 May 2003
Copyright © 2003 The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars
of the University of Cambridge.