HIST 1010 Lecture Notes - Main Source, Inductive Reasoning, Isaac Newton
23 Jul 2013
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A new world older thinkers, new thinking in our era: new mind frame- we can discover new things, and not just get them from, discovered many new different things in the americas, flora and fauna, calendar. Possible to see and find new things. Wanted to establish a reliable calendar: universities pan european, not situated in one location, around europe, worked for the church, and asked to help create a calendar, on the revolution of heavenly bodies, 1543. Introduced laws of planetary motion (still used today: data corresponded much better with the movement of the planets they saw, first mathematical model that confirmed copernicus" idea, not perfect circles, elliptical ones. Book represented as reality, not a theoretical model: dialogue a popular format- popular for a larger audience, not his finding that were important, it was the way he spread it out to other people.
