1. Crash Course History of Science Preview
Aired: Mar 26, 2018 For as long as Hank has hosted Crash Course, he's wanted to host a series abo...
2. Intro to the History of Science
Aired: Apr 9, 2018 We've been asking big questions for a really long time and we've all wanted t...
3. The Presocratics
Aired: Apr 16, 2018 So, who was this Presocrates guy? Just kidding. Long ago, some philosophers w...
4. Plato and Aristotle
Aired: Apr 25, 2018 Last week, we met the Presocratics: despite having by any reasonable standard...
5. India
Aired: Apr 30, 2018 You might have recognized the names of some of the Greek natural philosophers...
6. The Americas and Time Keeping
Aired: May 7, 2018 The Romans developed a lot of infrastructure like roads and aqueducts to both...
7. Roman Engineering
Aired: May 14, 2018 The Romans developed a lot of infrastructure like roads and aqueducts to both...
8. The Medieval Islamicate World
Aired: May 21, 2018 The religion of Islam significantly influenced knowledge-making in the greate...
9. Medieval China
Aired: Jun 4, 2018 Like Egypt, Sumer, and Mesoamerica, ancient China represents a hydraulic civi...
10. Ancient and Medieval Medicine
Aired: Jun 11, 2018 The history of medicine is about two of our big questions: one, what is life?...
11. Alchemy
Aired: Jun 25, 2018 In fantasy stories, charlatans in fancy robes promise to turn lead into gold....
12. Cathedrals and Universities
Aired: Jul 2, 2018 Until roughly 1100, there were relatively few places of knowledge-making. Mon...
13. The Scientific Revolution
Aired: Jul 9, 2018 So, what exactly is a scientific revolution? And are they more than just mome...
14. The New Astronomy
Aired: Jul 16, 2018 This week on Crash Course: History of the Scientific Revolution-astronomical ...
15. The Scientific Methods
Aired: Jul 23, 2018 Historically speaking, there is no one scientific method. There's more than o...
16. The New Anatomy
Aired: Aug 6, 2018 There's a question to consider that's pretty daunting: what is life? And to t...
17. The Columbian Exchange
Aired: Aug 14, 2018 Over the last four episodes, we've examined some of the stories that make up ...
18. Newton and Leibniz
Aired: Aug 20, 2018 The standard story of the Scientific Revolution culminates with the long life...
19. The New Chemistry
Aired: Aug 27, 2018 One of the problems with the whole idea of a single Scientific Revolution is ...
20. Biology Before Darwin
Aired: Sep 10, 2018 You've probably heard of Charles Darwin, but before we get to him, you really...
21. Earth Science
Aired: Sep 25, 2018 It's Earth Science time!!!. In this field, natural philosophers were asking q...
22. The Industrial Revolution
Aired: Oct 1, 2018 You probably know some of the signs of industrialization in the nineteenth ce...
23. Darwin and Natural Selection
Aired: Oct 8, 2018 "Survival of the Fittest" sounds like a great WWE show but today we're talkin...
24. Eugenics and Francis Galton
Aired: Oct 15, 2018 After Darwin blew the doors off the scientific community, a lot of people did...
25. Micro-Biology
Aired: Oct 22, 2018 It's all about the SUPER TINY in Microbiology. In it, Hank Green talks about ...
26. Genetics -- Lost and Found
Aired: Oct 29, 2018 Sometimes trail blazers of science aren't famous like Darwin or Pasteur. Some...
27. Thermodynamics
Aired: Nov 5, 2018 It's time to heat things up. LITERALLY. It's time for Hank to talk about the ...
28. Electricity
Aired: Nov 12, 2018 The study of electricity goes all the way back to antiquity. But, by the time...
29. Ford, Cars, and a New Revolution
Aired: Nov 26, 2018 Historians love to debate each other. So some of them pointed out that the fi...
30. The Mind/Brain
Aired: Dec 3, 2018 Scientists in the nineteenth century discovered a lot about life and matter. ...
31. Marie Curie and Spooky Rays
Aired: Dec 17, 2018 It's time to talk about one of the most awesome scientists that has ever been...
32. Einstein's Revolution
Aired: Jan 7, 2019 There was physics before Einstein in the same way that there was biology befo...
33. The Atomic Bomb
Aired: Jan 14, 2019 The story picks up where we left off last time, with Einstein writing the pre...
34. Biomedicine
Aired: Jan 21, 2019 The history of science up until the Cold War is often overshadowed by the Man...
35. Genetics and The Modern Synthesis
Aired: Feb 4, 2019 Remember how Darwin and Mendel lived around the same time, but everyone forgo...
36. The Computer and Turing
Aired: Feb 11, 2019 Computers and computing have changed a lot over the History of Science but ES...
37. Air Travel and The Space Race
Aired: Feb 18, 2019 Like the Industrial or the Einsteinian Revolution, the Space Race is a trope,...
38. Ecology
Aired: Feb 25, 2019 We’ve explored the origins of modern biology, the earth sciences, and even th...
39. Controlling the Environment
Aired: Mar 4, 2019 Well, it wouldn't be too long after we started developing Ecology that we wou...
40. Biotechnology
Aired: Mar 18, 2019 The history of discovering what DNA is, what it looks like, and how it works ...
41. Bodies and Dollars
Aired: Mar 25, 2019 After World War Two, the applications of basic discoveries in biology took of...
42. The Century of the Gene
Aired: Apr 1, 2019 With the question “What is life?” addressed at the molecular level, humanity ...
43. The Internet and Computing
Aired: Apr 8, 2019 We’ve talked a lot about advances in biotech. But none of those could have ha...
44. Life and Longevity
Aired: Apr 15, 2019 It's time to have a look at the future of human life and how technology could...
45. Climate Science
Aired: Apr 22, 2019 Scientists tend to be careful and resistant to big claims. So evidence for th...
46. The Limits of History
Aired: Apr 29, 2019 It's the final episode of our History of Science series and we thought it wou...