PSYC85H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Baconian Method, Syllogism, Ancient Philosophy
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People do not do work in isolation, they usually work in social institutions. Scholacticism is encyclopaedic knowledge in that culture in that time: nobody questions the basic assumptions this attitude exists today in subinstitutions. The early greek civilization represented a major step (5th through 3rd centuries. But it was not adapted to the emergence of experimental science. It favoured intuition, insight and intellectual processes but not the extraction of secrets from nature by experimental techniques. 1200-1500), although science was advanced in the byzantine culture of the east, the cultural life of. Thoughts were on prospects for the soul. So they accept 7 as a sacred number, god had put only 7 bodies in the immediate celestial universe (earth, sun, moon, venus, jupiter, saturn, mars): galileo"s discovery of 4 moons of jupiter appeared sacrilegious. The emergence of modern science : copernicus (1473-1543, kepler (1571-1630) Laws of planetary motion: galileo (1564-1642) Dynamics of moving bodies: newton (1642-1727)
