AS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Scientific Method, Cosmological Principle, Pseudoscience
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Lesson 4: from ancient astronomy to more modern ideas. Astronomy is the oldest of the sciences. Days of the week were named after the sun, moon, and visible planets. Stonehenge is a device located in south england shows a setting and snapshot. Beaker folk use pottery drinking vessels, metal implements, and live in a more communal fashion. Temploy mayor constructed by the aztec empire: linked to solstices and equinoxes. Kukulcan"s pyramid: seven isosceles triangles form a body of a serpent called the symbolic descent of. Big horn medicine is a simpler version of stonehenge in a north american site. 29. 5 days where month is derived from moon. Metonic cycle is where we get the same lunar phases every 19 years. Easter varies annually relative to the lunar cycle. Saros cycle deals with the cycle of eclipses. Pythagoras believed nature developed in accordance with geometrical or mathematical relationships. Socrates proposed that human does nothing knowingly wrong.
