NATS 1760 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Blaise Pascal, Micrographia, Trinity
27 Nov 2017
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Scientist: paid for what you do, special degree (nothing related to the scientific revolution) Book of nature we need to read, and understand. Empiricism to generate knowledge, idea that proper knowledge comes through the experience of the senses (basically an idea of how do you gain knowledge, gaining knowledge through application) To confirm what we see is real (terrestrial) Robert hook (1635-1703: well respected philosopher (ook"s law (cid:523)governs the actions of springs, famous results(cid:524) 1665: micrographia contains observations using microscopes and telescopes (organs that swim around in a water drop, cross section of plants, invented the word cell) Drawings of things under the microscope (not visible to the human eye) Hook uses this kind of complexity in nature to argue the existence of god. Must be because it is designed that way for a certain purpose. Famous site of natural philosophy during the scientific revolution. Anthropocentrism tendency to place the human beings at the center of the natural world.
