HUMAN 1C Lecture 4: Lecture 4
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The aristotelian was divided into two distinct portions: terrestrial and celestial. Most motions were linear, in a straight light. A body taken from its natural place will most likely return there. The moon and celestial bodies had indestructible material, ether. Galileo used it to look at the sky. Eventually we would discover that earth is just another heavenly body. Isaac newton created a new mathematics to study of new universal mechanics (laws of motion). The newtonian was based on the law of gravitation, applicable to both billiard balls and planetary revolutions. The past has an effect on the future. Science knows truths, but what truth it knows, it knows with absolute certainty. Once it has all the relevant data about a given area, science can proceed to give instructions as to how to be most successful in that area. Science in the 21st century belongs in the 19th century. A very difficult problem for physics in the.
