NATS 1750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Natural Magic, Bacon, Scholasticism
2 Apr 2016
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Art and science: how is that art is used by science in order to represent the world. (cid:1) Last class; the problem about representing the world was a technical problem, (3d to 2d) -> maps, stars though mathematics to gain knowledge about it. (cid:1) Gaining knowledge about the world isn"t just a technical problem, the problem is how we attain knowledge about the world at all. Seeing the world not just as giving us knowledge but its secrets, and how we gain access them. (cid:1) Shift in the idea in what nature is. Focus on the question on practice and utility. Renaissance (1350-1600): expands into the new world, travel, and humanism, commerce, etc. We want to understand that for a very long time that knowledge was lost to the to the. Recovering knowledge is not always easy to uncover, its sometimes about unlocking certain mysteries of the world. (cid:1) (cid:1)
