Sociology 2173A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Pseudoscience, Anaximander, Atomism

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Early greek science : thales, first person known to have addressed the question what is the universe made of? without resorting to a supernatural explanation, thought that earth was a flat disk on an infinite ocean, three major innovations in greek, greek philosophers developed a tradition of trying to understand nature without resorting to supernatural explanations, developed mathematics in the form of geometry, understood that an explanation about the world could not be right if it disagreed with observed facts, models, a conceptual representation whose purpose is to explain and predict observed phenomena, anaximander, suggested that the heaves must form a complete sphere (the celestial sphere) around the earth, suggested that the earth surface must be curved (thought it was a cylinder, pythagoras, adopted the concept of a spherical earth, the geocentric model, a spherical earth was at the center of a great celestial sphere on which the stars are located, a sphere inside a larger sphere.

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