T V 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Mechanician, Antiscience, Nominalism
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E-reader: the rise of modern science: when and why: scientific revolution took place from copernicus to newton. * there are many other people and dates that it can be pinned down to: revolution is not really the right term, but there is a huge difference between ancient science and modern (newtonian) science. Historiographical methods: historians have to imagine the situation of back then, the then accepted theoretical system and not assume that they had the knowledge we have now. Physical reality was obtained by observation and consistent thinking. Character of modern science: acknowledges no authorities expect the authority of nature. * not even authorities of investigator"s own reason: is experimental, builds upon direct observation of nature and on artificial experiments, favors a mechanistic world picture, explaining natural phenomena by analogy with a mechanism. * ancient science used organistic world view: compare non-living things to an organic being: tries to describe and explain natural things and events mathematical.
