MGMT 1050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Archaeopteryx, Cosmic Distance Ladder, Bunsen Burner
20 Jul 2016
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Throughout the ages, people have been wondering the same thing. Greek philosophers had their own ideas about the stars: "they are compressed portions of air, in the shape of wheels filled with fire, emitting flames at some point from small openings," claimed. And as late as the eighteenth century, the english philosopher thomas. Wright of durham was writing that the stars were giant volcanoes, belching in the darkness. One thing that all these accounts agree on is that the stars are hot. Just a century-and-a-half ago, the french positivist philosopher auguste comte wrote: "the field of positive philosophy lies wholly within the limits of our solar system, the study of the. In his last statement, comte was partly correct. But he would be proved to be wildly wrong in his assertion that we. R i g h t founder of the doctrine of sociology, the nineteenth-century french philosopher. Auguste comte strove to incorporate science into his world vision.
