Astronomy 1021 Lecture Notes - Copernican Revolution, Pseudoscience, Scientific Method
12 Sep 2012
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Setup & instructions for starry night are provided. Motions in the sky = 2% (pretty much ignored slides for a long while. Revolution in science : copernican revolution completely changed our ideas. What is science?: somehow related to scientia (knowledge), includes understanding. Includes scientific method basic level of scientific thinking. Scientific method : something we know from everyday experience. Idealized conceptual methodology many scientific discoveries happen by accident. Important: feedback mechanism that updates hypothesis when tests fail (missed more slides la la la) If this is true, very powerful and should be used to our advantage. Do they make sense: claim #1 if planets have influence, it must be through a mechanism we don"t know yet. It"s related to astrologically defined artificial constellations, not the ones that we see in the night sky. Motivation : we can describe many phenomena in the universe from small to very large scales by using only a few simple laws:
