HIST103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pioneer 10, Etruria, Mitochondrial Eve
22 Feb 2017
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2/9/17 lecture: our methodology, ancient search for origins, university tradition (cid:498)great conversations(cid:499) Sent to orbit around jupiter to take measurements and learn more about it. No way to bring it back to earth so it just went further out in space and out of the solar system. 2003 - 80 au (1 au= distance between earth and sun) from earth got radio signals until 2003 we lost touch. They added a gold plate to it as a message for any other life that may find it: image of man and woman, layout of the planets, which planet pioneer 10 came from. Nearly 4 billion people profess faith in a monotheistic religion: christianity 2,200, islam 1,600, hinduism 1,100, chinese deism 1,000, buddhism 500. School of athens painting, rafael, 1509-1511 portrays the christian search. Painting is centered on aristotle (on for causes. the right) and plato (left)
