ECON 2000 Chapter : Chapter 6 Economics
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Galileo- italian 1564-1642: father of modern science , first person to observe with telescope, discovered many things that changed astronomy, strongly supported heliocentric solar system. Modern science-scientific method: originally scientist were all philosophers, galileo first to experiment/ sue mathematics to understand the world. Scientific method: find something you want to test, collect data (experiment, observation, etc. , analyze data (look for patterns, correlations, etc. , develop an explanation (hypothesis, find other ways to test hypothesis. Moon: saw that the moon had mountains and valleys. Sun: dark spots on the sun"s surface that moves, sun rotates. Moons of jupiter: discovered 4 stars , stars never left jupiter and realized they were moons. Milky way: actually thousands (billions) of stars. Galileo and the inquisition: 1632- published dialogue concerning the two chief world systems, pope urban viii was a friend, brought galileo before the inquisition in rome in.
