PHYS 183 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Pseudoscience, Semi-Major And Semi-Minor Axes, Scientific Method
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3. 2 ancient greek science civilization established in egypt & mesopotamia by 3000 b. c. Greek models wanted to explain properties of matter & motions of stars, moon & planets. Greeks had influence since they were good at politics, war & philosophy already: alexander the great expanded greek empire & encouraged pursuit of knowledge founded alexandria where a large library was built preeminent research center for. 700 years: books about the library were destroyed with the library, egypt built a new library of alexandria (2003) Muslims sought knowledge of mat & astronomy in hopes of better understanding wisdom of. Allah: a. d. 800, house of wisdom established similar to library of alexandria, employed jews, christians & muslims, most of the officials names of constellations & stars come from arabic due to this work. What we now think of as science rose during european renaissance.
