NATS 1860 Lecture 5: Lecture5-Oct92014.docx

• School: York University
• Department: Natural Science
• Course: NATS 1860
• Professor: Jill Lazenby

Document Summary

Lecture 5 - the scientific revolution part 1 revolution = change in worldsview from aristotelian to newtonian. Retrograde motion of the planets (therefore added epicycles) During the dark ages (greek, greek world in egypt in preserving books got preserved by the arab empire through the translation movement fall of roman empire) the all books translated to arabic (doesn"t change much) Empirical fact = observation - based ex) pencil exists b/c we can see it. Philosophical/conceptual fact = pencil isn"t there but we know it"s behind the . Arab empire starts to decline = political instability, no laws (god can change it anytime), Latin west = weatern part of old roman empire where latin was spoken used to be arabic west. Charlemagne no more raid, therefore political stability, able to collect knowledge every cathedral had a school carolingian minuscule script (standardized the writing = easier to read and decipher text)