HLTH 252 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hippocratic Oath, Scientific Method, Geocentric Model
13 Jan 2017
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Week 1, lecture 2 (the scientific revolution and authority) We can learn a lot about how science is performed today from looking at its origins. Conventions of the lab/field we are working in. Implications of theory based data analysis: e. g. Important for flexibility and adaptability: understanding history and philosophy important. What things were made of, what/why things happened = work of the gods. Simple understanding changed of the natural world over time: hippocrates (medicine) Natural causes for disease breakthrough cause and effect. Understand natural world through observation physical senses: aristotle. Saw change in the world < why do they change. Questioned why and how things happened: ptolemy. Describe the movement of the stars mathematically. The greeks were wrong because they had no tools. Heavy and light matter > later - solids, liquids and gases were founded. Geocentric > later realized everything revolved around the sun. Knowledge from/out of authority to the people: copernicus.
