BIOL 040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Natural Selection, Sea Salt, Mental Chronometry
31 Jul 2020
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History task 2: through the lens of new science: galileo findings and views, comparison to aristotle, view on god. Important ideas and methods used that developed between the 1500 and 1600: consequences of this on western culture and society as a whole, role of instruments and tools in changing the world view. Chapter 2: the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century: From a geocentric to a heliocentric model of the universe: 16th century interest in astronomy due to the julian calendar. Afterwards this calendar was replaced by the gregorian calendar. Aristotle"s world view: aristotle and ptolemy proposed the model of the universe. The earth was in the centre (geocentric model). Around the earth (static) circled the wondering stars, the moor mercury venus. Sun mars jupiter saturn. Beyond saturn was the turning sphere of the fixed stars, the stars that stayed stationary relative to one another.
