NATS 1760 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Wide Area Augmentation System, Natural Philosophy, Dysentery
5 Jan 2016
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Circles upon circles epicycle: the smaller circles (planets) are deferent, they move along the larger one, the. The technology was not a means of investing nature, it was a way of illustrating nature. Philosophers didn"t want to change the world, they just wanted to understand it. Abstract: the idea isn"t to change the world, it"s to understand the world. Empirical: the goal is to collect facts and assemble them, make deduction. Comes from 2ad, before hippocrates (6/5bc) and aristotle. A physician, who placed the body fluids into four categories: Black bile: he would ask questions such as their sex, age, symptoms, etc, then placed them on the chart of the four humors. If they were hot and dry, then it would fall under yellow bile: but not only that, he said that everyone was in a place, they have all these bodily fluids that are equal to them.
