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A Filipino story that states people came from Kawayan

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Malakas and Maganda

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Created myths to explain different elements of human life

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Greeks

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Collection of stories that explain the origins and lives of gods

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Greek mythology

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Greek poem that tells the story of the Trojan War

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Homer’s Iliad

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Story of the voyage of the hero Odysseus

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Homer’s Odyssey

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Describes the creation of man

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Hesiod’s Works and Days

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Oral telling of myths

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Minoan and Mycenaean bards from the 18th century BCE onwards

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A belief in one god; this God is said to have created everything

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Monotheistic belief

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The general theory of relativity conceptualized a static universe, but data, calculations, and observations have shown that the universe is not static but moving.

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Static Universe Theory

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A German-born American physicist who presented a theory on a static universe

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Albert Einstein

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A falsified truth making the theory of a static universe a “scientific myth”

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The cosmological constant (c)

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Holds that the universe is the same at all times and places

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Concept of Continuous Creation (steady-state theory)

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Proposed the steady-state theory

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Hermann Bondi and Thomas Gold

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The currently accepted explanation on the origin of the universe

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The big bang theory

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Introduced the geocentric view

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Claudius Ptolemy (Ptolemy of Alexandria)

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Usually denotes the shape of the Earth

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spherical

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Introduced the Heliocentric Model

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Nicolaus Copernicus

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States that the sun is located near the center of the universe (unmoving) with the planets orbiting around it

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Heliocentric model

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Credited by Copernicus as one of the proponents of the Heliocentric view

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Aristarchus of Samos

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It is where the heliocentric view was published.

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On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

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An author of The Civilizing Process who quoted some arguments on why geocentric model was accepted for a long time

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Norbert Elias

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According to the Coperncian theory, motions of heavenly bodies are:

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the same, eternal, are in epicylces

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The bodies that surround the Sun:

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Mercury, Venus, Earth and Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and fixed stars

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Three motions of the Earth:

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Annual revolution, tilting of its axis, and daily rotation

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Motion of the planets that can be explained by the Earth's motion

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Retrograde motion

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Medieval astronomer and mathematician; believed in the Geocentric view

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Claudius Ptolemy

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A major work about the geocentric model published by Ptolemy

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The Almagest

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Greek astronomer and mathematician; believed in the heliocentric view

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Aristarchus of Samos

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Renaissance astronomer and mathematician; believed in the heliocentric view

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Nicolaus Copernicus

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Major work of Nicolaus Copernicus

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De Revolutionibus orbium coelestium - On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

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Two types of matter under the geocentric view

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Earthly matter, metaphysical matter (unearthly matter)

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Composed of earth, air, water, and fire prone to changes and deterioration

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Earthly matter

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Celestial bodies that are moving around the earth

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Metaphysical matter

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Characterized by all matters as one; "The physics of the universe is now the physics of earth" and vice versa

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Heliocentric view

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A German astronomer who was known for discovering the three laws of planetary motions

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Johannes Kepler

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A Danish astronomer whom Kepler based his astronomical data to formulate and verify his laws

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Tycho Brahe

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To whom Kepler assumed Tycho's position as imperial mathematician and astronomer

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Roman Emperor, Rudolf II

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The three laws of planetary motion:

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The Laws of Orbits, the Law of Equal Areas, the Law of Periods

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The first law of planetary motion states that the planets orbit the sun in elliptical paths, with the Sun as one focus of the ellipse.

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The Law of Orbits

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The second law states that areas covered by the planets are the same at equal intervals,

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The Law of Equal Areas

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Kepler's third law states that the ratio of the cube of a planet's mean distance (d) from the sun to the square of the orbital period (t) is a constant (d^3/t^2).

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The Law of Periods

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An Italian physicist and astronomer known as the "father of modern science"

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Galileo Galilei

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Where his observations of the cosmos where listed

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The Starry Messenger

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Observations found that are in The Starry Messenger

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Sun spots, "mountains and valleys" in the moon, phases of Venus, satelites of Jupiter

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How motion occurs without defining the forces that control them

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Kinematics

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Time-squared law; shows that a distance travelled in free fall is proportional to he squared of the time it takes to travel

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Law of falling bodies

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Projectiles are composed of two independent motions: vertical and horizontal components. The horizontal component (uniform motion), vertical (uniformly accelerated motion)

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Motions of projectiles

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Galileo believed that an object moving in a uniform motion on Earth's surface would continue to move without any force to keep it going, given that the object does not meet any resistance.

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Inertia

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They initiated the scientific revolution.

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Galilei and Kepler