NATS 1880 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Copernican Revolution, Diurnal Motion, The Science Of Life
8 Jan 2017
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Chapter 2: the science of life in the universe. 2300 years ago: scholars of ancient greece rst attempt/debate of lbe. Attempts to understand the sky is what started our road of modern science today. Ancient earth: thought to be a at motionless surface under moving domelike sky. Track time & seasons - crucial for agricultural societies. 5000 years ago: chinese kept written records. 2500 years ago: babylonians predicted eclipses accurately with said records. Records: used only for religious/practical needs - except for the greeks who wanted to learn architecture of the cosmos. Greece rose at 800 bc & established at 500 bc. Thales: universe fundamentally based on water & earth was at disk with in nite oceans. His q what is the universe made of? set stage for all later science. Thales (624-546 bc) -> plato (428-348 bc) -> his student aristotle (384-322 bc) Greeks based science of thought/intuition & not on observation/experiments.
