HPS210H1 Quiz: HPS210 Study Notes Quiz One
25 Aug 2016
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Believed each science had its own object of study and its own principles hat were not reducible and could not be derived from other fields of investigation. This method was in opposition to the reductive tendency of plato and. In book ii of physics he suggested that some things exist by nature (animals, plants, earth, fire, air and water). Beds, coats and other items like these are products of art. They lack the source of their development, which is help by something external to them (like an artist). He therefore didn"t liken mechanical things to natural things to understand them. He believed that there was something perfect and unchanging about the mathematical that was incompatible with the earthly realm. Believed in a celestial (immutable, timeless, uniform circular motion, domain proper to mathematics) realm, and a terrestrial realm (imperfect, mutable, up and down motion) Earthly things were made of the four elements earth, wind, water and.
