WELD 174AB Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Deferent And Epicycle, Cenozoic, Ancient Greek Philosophy
31 Jul 2020
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Timeline of mankind: sapiens (first fire), neanderthalensis, heidelbergensis, erectus, Expansion of homo sapiens 50. 000 years ago (africa ->europe, asia, australia) 30k to 20k bce: development of language facilitated massive expansion. Neolithic revolution (10. 000 bce): transition from hunter-gatherer to farming, settlement and possession. Fertile crescent (3000 bce): region in middle east with high level of civilization, egyptian and mesopotamian civilizations: mathematics, geometrical knowledge, calendar, hieroglyphs. Skills based on understanding of how things work. Animism (collection of myths and stories about beginning of universe) Conditions for growth in knowledge: political stability, urbanization, patronage, availability of writing system. Civilizations in the fertile crescent (3000bce): ancient mesopotamia: mathematics, ancient egypt: geometrical knowledge, calendar, hieroglyphs. Thought in empirical way=observation is the key to nature: ptolemy (90-168): astronomy, epicycles, galen (130-201): medicine (link problem 9) Schools emerged in athens, first academy founded by plato. Expansion of greek knowledge under alexander the great (hellenistic culture), alexandria library. More interested in technology advances than in philosophy.
