Review
Chapters 1-2
Chapters 1-2
the trivium and quadrivium handed to Plato by Pythagoreans
What are the seven liberal arts?
What is Trigonometry?
"Let the Sun stand at the center, as God intended" (1543)
Who was Copernicus?
Heisenberg said modern physics favors this believer in ideal forms
Who is Plato?
the mathematics of change
What is calculus?
two realms united by the number line
distance per time
What is velocity or speed?
"The universe is written in the language of geometry; I have read its verses." (1630)
Who is Kepler?
Proposed the heliocentric model
Who is Copernicus?
the idea that he earth is at the center of the universe
What is geocentricity?
mysterious, nonphysical "realm" or "world" where the Ideas or Forms exist
What is "Plato's Heaven?"
discipline studying forces acting on stationary objects in water or some other fluid
What is hydrostatics?
"They silenced my voice by not the motion" (1642)
Who is Galileo?
Developed the law of free fall
Who is Galileo?
the study of the overall structure of the cosmos
What is cosmology?
the philosophy of nature or what we now call "science"
What is "natural philosophy?"
Another name:
Give me one "instant" in time
What is a "moment"?
Bookend dates for the scientific revolution
What are 1543 and 1727?
Fired the first shot of the Scientific Revolution
Who is Copernicus?
Galileo's science of motion
What is "new science?"
the "science of space"
What is Geometry?
combination of Aristotle with Christianity
What is Scholasticism?
Baroque Period of the Arts, also the Scientific Revolution
What is the 17th century (1600s)?
Who is Archimedes?
change in an object's speed over time
What is acceleration?