BIOL 040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Deferent And Epicycle, Inductive Reasoning, Scientific Method
31 Jul 2020
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Together these three developments and enhanced status of scientific research are summarized in history as scientific revolution. From a geocentric to a heliocentric model of the universe. The geocentric model of the universe in the sixteenth century. Geocentric model: earth as the centre of a finite universe. Heliocentric model: sun as the centre of the universe. Galilei made several observations and concluded that copernicus"s heliocentric model was much more likely than ptolemy"s geocentric model. Catholic church was upset because of his questioning of their doctrine. The evidence he presented (and which could easily be verified by others once they had a telescope) was so convincing that the heliocentric view rapidly came to dominate astronomy. In particular, the writings of francis bacon were important in making the new method of natural philosopher (the predecessor of the scientist explicit) Bacon"s advice compromised the following element: observation and inductive reasoning are much more important in science than acknowledged by.
