About this podcast
This podcast discusses the history of scientific thought and tells stories about the greatest scientific discoveries and the scientists who made them. There may also be an inordinate amount of Xennial-related references thrown in along the way. Episodes will be released every two weeks on Fridays! Thanks for listening.
Episodes
- Episode 6 - Galen · 58 min · Season 2 Episode 1We are back! After a long hiatus, new episodes of the show will be dropping regularly. For the first time, we will spend an entire episode focused on a single person. Our subject…
- Episode 5 - All Roads Lead to Rome · 1 h 9 min · Season 1 Episode 5In this episode we will learn about the impact of the Roman Empire on scientific thought. As opposed to the Greeks who approached mathematics and science from a philosophical…
- Episode 4 - Eureka! The Mathematics of the Hellenistic Age - Part 2 · 56 min · Season 1 Episode 4In this episode, we continue learning about the Hellenistic Age in which Greek thinkers made many important advances in the fields of mathematics and astronomy. Part 2 features…
- Episode 3 - Eureka! The Mathematics of the Hellenistic Age - Part 1 · 1 h 7 min · Season 1 Episode 3In this episode, we continue our journey through the history of ancient Greece into the Hellenistic Age. We start with a history lesson about Alexander the Great and his military…
- Episode 2 - Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle · 1 h 10 min · Season 1 Episode 2On the last episode, we discussed the ideas of the pre-Socratic philosophers. Their ideas and metaphysical concepts had a large influence on the next generation of philosophers…
- Episode 1 - The Origins of Scientific Thought · 1 h 17 min · Season 1 Episode 1Welcome to the very first episode of From Alchemy to Atoms! In this episode, you'll learn about the origins of scientific thought rooted in the ideas of the pre-Socratic…
