EURO ST 10 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Novum Organum, Scientific Method, Pendulum Clock
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Galileo"s deeper significance: the mathematization of nature . Mathematics is the language with which god has written the universe - galileo. Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured . Francis bacon, novum organum scientarium (new tool of the sciences), 1620. Developed the beginnings of the scientific method. Part 1: instauratio magna (the great renovation) Multi petransibunt et augebitur scientia (many will pass through and knowledge will be increased) Recall the line from brecht"s play when galileo looks into the camera . The relationship between science and technology and power. What is the relationship between the scientist and society. This is an underlying motif in the play by brecht. We saw how machiavelli could be said to follow that dictum (100 years before. Born in pisa, 1564, into a poor but noble family. Begins studying at the university of pisa in 1581.
