NATS 1745 Lecture Notes - Retrograde And Prograde Motion, Celestial Pole, Star Catalogue
3 Nov 2012
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Ancient greek for an intellectual freedom that led to a revolution in scientific thought. The popularity of plato and aristotle led to nearly. 2000 years of widespread belief in the geocentric model, even though the heliocentric model was also taught in their time. Considered the father of science for attempting to find explanations for natural phenomena that didn"t involve the gods. His philosophy gained support when he demonstrated that some acts of nature (eg. Developed the 1st moving model of the universe, in which the motion of the celestial bodies is explained by placing them on spinning wheels around the earth. According to legend, when he discovered that musical pitch is determined by the length of the instruments, he realized: the universe is a cosmos (a harmonious system that obeys knowable laws) The thought that all celestial motion is perfectly circular, and that earth is a sphere. He led a cult called the pythagorean.
