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Galileo most important theory
Earth not center of universe, Sun is center of universe
Why did Galileo cause problems with his theories
Against pope
Galileo born
Pisa, Italy
Galileo died
Florence, Italy
Galileo's tomb
Villa San Croche in Florence, Italy
Science as Early Origin
World is power and Unexplainable
Spiritual Control
Benevolent and Evil
Early Origin and what to do:
attempts to appease spirits
some individuals realize rituals have no impact
beginning of logic
Logic
an orderly system to understand nature from observed data
History and Early Greeks
Aristotle
Aristotle
Origin of physical science (world and life sciences)
morphology
how things look
physiology
how things work
Philosophy
Observation
Categorization
Deduction
Observation
Some objects float, some sink
Categorization
Floaters vs Sinkers
Deduction
less dense float
more dense sink
Aristotle worked on
Planetary motion
Changes in physical composition of matter
Descriptions of living stuff (no experiments)
Not supernatural world
Developed natural laws
Dominated until 1500s (supported by pope) - lead to trouble since tested
Science as scholastic appraoch
Students studied work of Aristotle
Little testing
No critical review of previous work
Pseudoscience (sort of science ex. astrology)
Dark ages - religion and magic
World according to diving plan (popes and faith and illiteracy)
Miraculous events-fires and floods
Emerging science versus church doctorine
People who controverse church doctrine
Copernicus - Sun is center of universe
Galileo - Evidence that Copernicus was correct
Scientific Revolution as Science
Early 1500-1800
Renaissance
Science as a process
Active questioning
Key Characters Scientific Revolution
Newton - celestial motion and gravity
Bacon - Scientific method
Darwin - Evolution, adaptation and natural selection
Science as Royal Society
Founded in 1660 in England
Quality control in science
Experimental science vs. observational
Peer Review - "quality control"
Publication of results
Oldest continuously functioning scientific society
Above the door in royal society
"on the word of no one"
The Mechanical Universe as a science
Galileo and Newton
Mathematical approach
Same physics apply to all parts of universe
applies to non-living and living
Rejection
Rejection of mechanical universe
Vitalism - vital spark in living things
Teleology - purpose and plan for universe
Science by and for everyone as a science
At all intellectual levels
Formal teaching dulled inquisitiveness
Science is a tool
What we do with science is a societal issue
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21537
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USU
Description
Exam 1
Updated
2010-06-01T04:39:01Z
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