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This article explores the natural philosophy course's role in shaping undergraduate physics curricula in the nineteenth century, highlighting its importance.
The modern American undergraduate Physics course is a descendent of the Natural Philosophy course of the nineteenth century. In this article I will discuss colleges of the time and will see how the course fitted into the overall curriculum. In an earlier article I have written about the professors who taught it, and now I turn to their students.
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