ESS104H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dynamo Theory, Francis Bacon, Inductive Reasoning
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Wrote about living in a town that was polluted. Importance of noticing what is happening to our environment. Historic ideas about origin and development of the earth. Contributions to earth science by famous scientists within an historic context. James hutton (scotland) figured that rocks came from hot lava. Abraham gottlieb werner (saxonia) figured rocks were formed through water. Keith runcorn: magnetic record of seafloor spreading. Bring poster, stand next to it, talk to prof / ta about poster. Get a list of questions that will be asked on the exam. Fact: event/thing we know to exist/ have happened / be true. Hypothesis: proposed explanation of occurrence or cause of a phenomenon. Theory: set of explanations, all supported by facts, and leading to consistent conclusions, has predictive power (leads to new hypotheses) more set in stone, widely accepted. Describes patterns (how an effect is linked to a cause) Most useful hypothesis is often the one we try to falsify.
