HIST 1250 Lecture Notes - Tycho Brahe, Bioprospecting, Middle Ages
10 Mar 2014
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In the middle ages, knowledge was translated between islamic empire, byzantine empire, india. Enormous population of christians in asia, latin america. Wrote many books, some of them on science. They wrote treatises in chinese, introduced trigonometry in china. They were unable to change the christian policies. They were unable to convert chinese to christians. First museums, botanical gardens were seen in europe. Naval officers are going to be trained using equipments. Test for universal gravitation was done in france. This means earth should be bulged at the equator and should be seen as an onion. Venus expedition: if we are at different places on the earth at same time,we can calculate distance between earth and venus and earth and sun. The earth is about 153 million to 154 million kilometres from the sun. Believes a human can be created from the grave yard. Interested in accumulating vast amount of data form the world.
