HPS210H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Learned Society, Normal Science, Paradigm Shift
27 Sep 2017
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We will also be looking at the methods that historians of science used to obtain their theories etc. (philosophy) Scientific historians: aristotle, hepernicus, ibn al haitham (lived in and worked in modern day cairo), athenaseus (he did work to compile the work on science that was done by desuits. ) Decartes coined the theory of magnetic field (attraction and repulsion). This course is also about social factors, including the history of publications like. Newtons published book principia mathematica on math, the first scientific society in. London that includes members like william, they did experiments they were called the royal society, charles the second (king of england) was apart of the royals society. (most important scientific society in history). Newtons work that showed the nature of white light, theories, other sciences like the invention of algebra (one science can impact another, as algebra was crucial to newtons findings and theories.
