ESC-1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: 30 Foot Fall, Nicolaus Copernicus, Edwin Hubble
20 Jan 2017
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Geologists study the materials that compromise earth, history of earth + its processes. A good hypothesis consists of testability, verifiability + predictive power. 542: combines continental drift, sea-floor spreading, fossil distributions and the fields of seismology and volcanology. Thomas khun introduced the paradigm shift, the structure of scientific revolution: science is a social enterprise, hift: (cid:449)hat (cid:455)ou thought (cid:449)as true is(cid:374)(cid:859)t, (cid:862)the truth (cid:373)a(cid:455) (cid:374)ot e(cid:454)ist(cid:863) Einstein developed the general theory of relativity: disproved the laws of conservation of mass and energy, paradigm shift in physics. Cosmology: the study of the structure & evolution of the universe. Jean-bernard-leon foucault (1819-1868), a french physicist, proved that the earth spins on its axis. Geocentric model (ptolemy; alexandria, egypt; 100-170 bc) Galileo (1564-1642) & isaac newton (1642-1727) used heliocentric model to formulate ideas. Eratosthenes found the earth was a sphere (276-194 bce), calculated the earth(cid:859)s circumference to be. 39,300 km or 24,421 miles (cid:449)ithi(cid:374) (cid:1006)% of toda(cid:455)(cid:859)s a(cid:272)(cid:272)epted (cid:448)alue.
