Mediëval world view

Question 1

Mediëval world view

Answer 1

Ancients knew all, scholars preserve rather than generate knowledge and heaven and hell exists

Question 2

Ptolemaic system

Answer 2

All callestial bodies orbit around the earth. They thought they circled in epicycles

Question 3

Retrograde motion

Answer 3

process that occurs because planets further from the sun move slower. That’s why you see epicycles if you follow the planets from earth.

Question 4

Copernicus

Answer 4

Developed alternative solar model; Heliocentric. Sun in the middle. Wasn’t believed till later

Question 5

Galileo Galilei

Answer 5

Took Copernicus seriously, thought church was foolish. Explained parabola with Galileo’s ship (dropping stone). Motion is distance divided by time. Telescope to the sky

Question 6

Kepler

Answer 6

First to describe ellipses io cicles. Earth revolves around the sun

Question 7

Bacon (methadology and idols)

Answer 7

4 idols
Idols of the tribe; Inherant to human nature (visual illusion, confirm. bias)

Idols of the cave; bc we’re part of a certain culture (men smarter/majority believes)

Idols of the marketplace; Bc we can talk about things(Choice of words, reification)

Idols of the theater; Bc said by authorities.