HPS211H1 Lecture Notes - Scientific Revolution, Scholasticism, Heliocentrism
5 Mar 2013
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Copernicus, galileo and the mathematical view of nature. Thought that we needed to experiment to experience. Unlike scholars who constantly worked on an aristotelian thought. Proposed air resistance vs aristotelian heavy falls faster". Foundationalist epistemology >> saw knowledge as growing on secure foundation. Radical doubt, built knowledge on something you can"t deny. I think therefore i am, can" deny my own existence. Matter and all things are the extensive matter. Sought to explain things rather than just describe them. Method of hypothesis >> test and explain things. Vortex theory >> planet cells shed little bits off the earth while things are drawn towards earth with gravity. Christiaan sought what the mathematical and mechanistic approach used for in life. Breaks down every phenomena piece-wise, rather than looking for global idea. Take all possible data and gradually induce a theory. Go and study every instance of phenomena rather than just base unknown properties.
