BIOL 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Roman Mythology, Mendelian Inheritance, Carl Linnaeus
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Aristotle: actually got hands on experience with what he learned about. Roger bacon was the first to insist on the need for experience and not just argument to come to a convincing truth. We might think that first we come up with the theory and then engineers create a device, but often it was the other way around long ago. The engineers would create something and then try and figure out the theory. The medieval cosmology: that was smashed to pieces by the turks once they could see things magnified, could find concrete evidence, the test of an astronomical system is its ability to predict the motion of a planet. Middle of the 16th century: started to find out the earth was not the center of the universe, but the sun was (and the earth and other planets went around the sun) The(cid:396)e (cid:449)e(cid:396)e othe(cid:396) i(cid:374)di(cid:272)atio(cid:374)s that thi(cid:374)gs (cid:449)e(cid:396)e(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:395)uite ho(cid:449) they (cid:449)e(cid:396)e supposed to (cid:271)e.
