NATS 1880 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Nicolaus Copernicus, Apparent Retrograde Motion, Scientific Modelling
13 Oct 2016
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Chapter 2: the science of life in the universe. The sun and moon played a very important role in our understanding marking season and time especially for the agricultural societies), and the tide waves from the moon. Such as, the sun moving across the sky is being pulled by the god. Ea(cid:396)th"s (cid:272)li(cid:373)ate(cid:895: the purpose of models is for further predictions, or even explain the outcome, anaximander (student of thales) suggested that the heavens must for a complete sphere (celestial sphere(cid:895). In the possibility of extraterrestrial life, there were two separate arguments: The atomists (mainly developed by democritus) held that both earth and the heavens were made from an infinite number of indivisible atoms of each of the four elements (fire, water, earth air) He built large naked-eye observatories much like giant protractors. And in three decades, he used them to measure planetary positions.
