NATS 1760 Lecture 3: NATS1760 - Lecture 3
5 Jan 2016
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How science built a reliable social system of trust: give people extortionately large amounts of detail about success, failures, prolixity - show modesty. The revolution of science is highly dependant with printing (see below) Robert boyle: torricellian - barometer - quicksilver. When you are higher up, the air is thinner - air has weight: with the air pump, he puts all sorts of things in and pumps the air out. Whatever needs air will die, and with the torricellian, the mercury goes down, almost in the level to the basin. An artificial matter of fact - no disagreement as everyone saw it he gave everyone the info to build the machine for others to try. The hypothesis is that air has weight, when you take the air out, the mercury drops. A hypothesis about the nature of air - air has a spring to it, it bounces back like wool.
