GE CLST 73A Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Phlegm, Null Hypothesis, Silver Stain
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Scientific method developed in europe hundreds of years ago. Prior to this europe was the end of the world - nobody wanted to go it was poor, backward, technologically unsophisticated, constantly fighting, and all religious fanatics. If you lived in europe it was very hierarchical and everybody in europe made sense of it. A place defined by its purpose and made evident by its observed qualities- its visible form and composition, texture, smell, taste, and sounds. They thought the place of the earth was at the center of the universe. Based on the observed qualities of the work. Women were made more of earth and water which made us able to nurture like water and fertile like the earth. Like the cosmos, the earthly world (although violent and sinful) was very hierarchical, integrated, and static - everyone and everything had a defined place in medieval european society.