HY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Classical Mechanics, Andreas Vesalius, Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
12 Sep 2016
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History: a revolution in science (1530-1700, a few nal words about england: thomas hobbes and john locke. Government should only protect lives, liberty, and property according to john locke. if gov"t not protecting there is a cause for revolution: the components of modern science. Observation, experiment, and search for mathematical laws (modern scienti c method) Copernicus (challenged a thousand years worth of science) Astronomy and physics biggest scienti c theories: medicine. Galen and his critics (internal factors on why we get sick. no microscope yet. ) never directed human being: scienti c societies and spread of knowledge, implications for religious belief, the limits of intellectual in uence. Revolution of the heavenly spheres- written by nicholas copernicus. Tycho brahe (1546-1642)- astrologer and astronomer - refused to rely on own observations. Galileo (1564-1642)- starry messenger book about his ndings. Isaac newton (1642-1727)- principia mathematica kepler math, formulates universal law of gravity from galileo ^^^ every observable motion.
