AST251H1 Lecture : lecture note
22 Jan 2012
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How did life begin and evolve on earth, how did earth form, can life exist elsewhere and where. Babylonians predict and so did mayans, worked without understanding, Early greek philosophers, democ, 4 elements earth air wind fire, and made out of these happened on earth happened elsewhere, ether. Have been picked up by scientist over last few years, quintessents in cosmology universe as a whole the formation of the universe, Why only one world exists, nothing is unique and alone. Fast forward to middleages, earth and man are special, aquinas obviously just one, 1277 217 reason for excommunication. Sometimes ended badly, bruno jailed and then burned, Copernicus, slowly accepted, 5 plantes revolve around the sun, moon is a satellite of the earth , earh not center, mediocrity we are not special, This slides someone looked carefully and developed simple rules to explain observation.
