HPS100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Horoscope, Bloodletting, Phlegm
22 Oct 2017
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This will help us understand our worldviews- the old views affect the current views. For the past 6 lectures, we have been focusing on the process of scientific change, philosophy. Now, we will be focusing on the content of the scientific change. They were grasped intuitively because this is what they observed in their reality: they are characterized by sensible qualities. Can change elements by changing their sensible qualities. Get water, heat it and make it into vapour (air) Burning wood (ie. earth and water) leads to vapour and fire air fire. Possibility of alchemy it is reaso(cid:374)a(cid:271)le to sear(cid:272)h for eli(cid:454)irs a(cid:374)d philosopher"s sto(cid:374)es. Yellow bile every person is born with different natural balances of bodily humours and they all differ: temper=balance peculiar to individual, there are 4 different temperments. The re(cid:448)olutio(cid:374) of pla(cid:374)ets ti(cid:373)e to stud(cid:455) this a(cid:374)d this brings the possibility of astrology.
