SCIE 1P51 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: William Whewell, Pythagorean Theorem, Anaximander
16 Feb 2016
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Science 1p51: lecture two- friday, january 8 th , 2016. Word science comes from the latin words scientia knowledge and scire to know. Writing cuneiform tablets with astronomical observations . Greece around 500/600 bce (the more commonly known origin of science) Thales of miletus around 640-548 bc. Thought that water was the fundamental element on the planet. Did not believe air, water, earth or fire were the. Pythagoras of samos around 560-480 bc. He had a huge contact with the greeks and other far lands; may have not completely coming up with the whole. One of the first to think that air could be compressed. They think that there are some fundamental parts to plants and animals. Around 450 b. c. e. , leucippus and democritus atomos: Point at which matter can no longer be subdivided. Lots of discussion about nature and matter but no experiments to prove or disprove their thinking.
