HPS100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Formal Science, Scientific Method, Pythagorean Theorem
28 Jan 2016
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Popular science mythology ancient greeks (hippocrates, aristotle etc) tried to understand the universe/what the world was made of (everything they theorized were proven wrong) Religion came along and for a long time there was no science. Galileo/newton were the first to liberate science from religion (17 century) created the scientific method. Contemporary science: all about observation and experiments (separated from any metaphysics) We will focus on scientific theories changes in the mosaic of accepted theories. Contemporary scientific mosaic consist of different areas of science (natural, social, formal science) Theory: a set of propositions that attempt to describe something. Scientific mosaic- a set of all accepted theories. Scientific mosaic is based off of intelligent people not laments th century (1765) Scientific mosaic was different from today education revolved around. Newtonian physics, theology (study of god), phlogiston (everything has the capacity to combust), theory of preformation (human beings are created by fully formed organism we grow over time)
