NATS 1750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Blaise Pascal, Robert Hooke, Scientific Revolution
2 Apr 2016
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Mid 16th century to mid 18th century. Duck/ rabbit, some people saw a duck and some people saw a rabbit, it shows that one can see either the duck or the rabbit but one can"t see both at the same time. Language works in the same way, and one language can give a person a different perspective to a different perspective. The duck/ rabbit embodies for many people what the scientific revolution does to how we see and understand the world. Science is a way of seeing and understanding the world, the scientific revolution brings about a completely different way of understanding the world, the previous way along with the more modern way cannot be reconciled. One either sees the way through the new scientific method, or the old aristotelian view. The scientific revolution isn"t necessarily scientific, it completely changed thinking and society at the time, perhaps it was a natural philosophical revolution.
