PHYS133 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Albertus Magnus, Thomas Bradwardine, Robert Grosseteste

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Physics and Astronomy
• Course: PHYS133
• Professor: Mullan Dermott

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3. 2 the greeks and the roots of science. Science as we know it began with the greeks in the 500"s bc natural. Previously, explanations of natural phenomena relied on myths. Natural philosophy = science: an attempt to apply reason to (cid:1) (cid:1) philosophy (cid:1) (cid:1) understand events in nature (cid:1) (cid:1) Bertrand russell: western philosophy began with thales of miletus . Thales the father of science started a school in 580"s bc. Anaximander and anaximenes continued to the school until no later (cid:1) (cid:1) than 528 bc. Quintessential substances: basic properties of water, air etc. determine how nature behaves. He predicted the occurrence of a total solar eclipse visible from. Espenak"s table of eclipses: 584 bc, may 28: total solar eclipse, with a path which passed over the west coast of modern turkey, i. e. over miletus. Eratosthenes measured the circumference of earth: 240 bc. On a certain day, sun is overhead at syene (southern egypt), but is.