AST101H1 Chapter : good notes

• School: UTSG
• Department: Astronomy & Astrophysics
• Course: AST101H1
• Professor: Michael Reid

Document Summary

In what ways do all humans use scientific thinking? y science is a way of learning about nature through careful observations and trial-and-error experiments. African societies discovered that the orientation of the crescent. 3. 3 the copernican revolution y nicholas copernicus began the work that overturned the earth-centered. Over the next century and a half, philosophers and scientists debated and tested his radical view of the cosmos. y the new ideas introduced by copernicus fundamentally changed the way we perceive our place in the universe. Copernican revolution, spurred the development of virtually all modern science and technology. Copernicus y copernicus discovered simple geometric relationships that allowed him to calculate each planet s orbital period around the sun and its relative distance from the sun in terms of the earth-sun distance. This proved that the sun was indeed the centre of the solar system y his new model worked just as poorly as the first one (ptolemaic model)