PO280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Scientific Method

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Born 1596 at la haye near tours. 1606-15 jesuit college of la fl che in anjou. At this time many wars going on in europe (called 30 years war) religious war between catholic (lead by the pope, kinds of france) and protestant states. 1969 has main scientific inspiration in wintery germany. At that time i was i germany, where i had been called by the wars that are not yet ended there. 1628-49 lives in holland; frequent changes of address. Changed his address on a weekly basis because he was paranoid. He felt that people were following him. He moved to the netherlands (at the time was republic and a more liberal spirit) This event triggered the paranoia he had. Galileo decided that the earth was circling around the sun, not the other way around. This didn"t go over well with the church because christ had come to earth and the pope represented.

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