HPS211H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Franz Boas, Alonzo Church, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
27 Feb 2014
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Laws of electricity and magnetism valid in all non-accelerating reference frames. A particle will always travel along the shortest path or a path that minimizes energy. Light as an electromagnetic wave, light is represented as an oscilation in an aether. He had to fight through the entrenched views of william paley (argument for design, watchmaker analogy) Refers to explaining geology through still operant degrees of force) Steady-state earth- constant cycle of eruption and decay. Comes from the vulcanist" school of geology (hutton) Denies actualism, uniformitarianism, and steady state earth- everything is result of catastrophic events. Brought lyell book on a beagle"s voyage and was a uniformitarian by 1839. Good theories display consilience (unification of disparate phenomena) Vera causa, good theories employ only familiar causes. Both agreed that good science looks like physics. Asa gray, who thought that natural selection was compatible with natural theology (american publishing of the origin)
