BIOL 040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Mechanical Philosophy, Analytical Skill, Kinematics
31 Jul 2020
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Summarized in history writings as scientific revolution. = name given to series of discoveries in seventeenth century, involving galilei, descartes and. Newton, that enhanced the status of science in society: developments in scientific research and society at large in 18th and 19th centuries that specifically led to development of psychology as scientific study of human mind and human behavior. Increased attention to functioning of humans: medical studies dealing with nervous system and human responses to physical stimuli, development of statistics, which allowed researchers to find systematic patterns in samples of data, which individually were not predictable. From a geocentric to a heliocentric model of the universe. The earth as the center of the universe. Model of universe in 16th century was originally the model proposed by aristotle and. Geocentric model = finite universe with earth at its center; dominant until the 17th century.
