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- Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ...he scientific revolution was the publication of ''De revolutionibus orbium coelestium'' by [[Nicolaus ...
3: ...totelian]]; at its end, science was [[mathematics|mathematical]], [[mechanics|mechanical]], and [[empiricism|em...
7: ...as; some of the rancor and cross-purposes in such debates may arise from lack of recognition of these ...
9: ...tially as it is understood and practiced in the modern world; there is no concern here with "other nar...
15: ... (This and Galen's anatomy, though largely superseded by later work, are none the less important contr... - Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ...mets are composed largely of frozen [[carbon dioxide]], [[methane]] and [[water]] with [[dust]] and va...
5: ... sun consisting of debris left over from the [[condensation]] of the [[solar nebula]]; the outer edges...
11: ... sight. They were usually considered bad omens of deaths of kings or noble men, or coming catastrophes...
15: ...ics that tend to be very dark, like [[tar]] or crude [[Petroleum|oil]]. The very darkness of cometary ...
17: ...and far ultraviolet photons [http://www.kvi.nl/~bodewits]. - History of science (41710 bytes)
2: Modern [[science]] is a body of verifiable [[empirical...
4: ... change is considered to be so fundamental that older inquiries are known as ''pre-scientific''. Still...
6: ...] concerns the [[Creativity|creative]] process of designing useful objects and systems, which differs ...
11: ...mphasize the view that scientific data is self-evident, value-free, and context-free.
13: ...e, and that there can be [[demarcation problem|no demarcation]] between science and any other form of ... - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
1: [[Image:Hooke 2.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
4: ...led because his observations of plant cells reminded him of [[monk]]s' cells. Also in 1665 he gained ...
6: ... of London|Great Fire]] in [[1666]]. He worked on designing the [[Royal Greenwich Observatory]] and th...
12: ...watches still use balance springs, and derivative designs of Hooke's [[anchor escapement]] remain in c...
14: .... While he did give much advice on new microscope designs to the instrument-maker [[Christopher Cock]]... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...fried Leibniz|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] for the development of differential [[calculus]]. While they...
4: ...a prism was inherent in the white light and not added by the prism as [[Roger Bacon]] had claimed in t...
6: ...ped a [[Newton's law of cooling|law of cooling]], describing the rate of cooling of objects when expos...
12: ...ief biography of Newton's early life. For more in-depth information, see [[Isaac Newton's early life a...
14: ... said that his body at that time can even fit inside a quart mug. His father had died three months bef... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...ation in the unity of science movement which includes [[logical positivism]].
6: ...of its proponents attempted to use rationalism to demonstrate the existence of a supreme being. In thi...
8: ...rise of [[empiricism | empirical]] philosophical ideas, and their application to [[political economy]]...
10: ... and the [[Renaissance]] and [[Reformation]] preceded it (if it is thought of as a long period). Furth...
14: ...the universe where God and Nature were one. This idea became central to the Enlightenment from Newton ... - Astronomer (4344 bytes)
2: ...us.jpg|right|frame|Nicolaus Copernicus.Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
6: ...es of the gods, led to a [[duality]] that we now identify as [[astrology]]. It is important to recogni...
8: ...tead must resort to detailed [[observation]] in order to make discoveries. Generally, astronomers use ...
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18: ...d classified stars by [[Apparent magnitude|magnitude]]. - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
2: ...Thomas Hobbes (portrait).jpg|thumb|Thomas Hobbes: detail from a portrait by John Michael Wright ([[Nat...
4: ...Thomas Hobbes''' ([[April 5]], [[1588]] – [[December 4]], [[1679]]) was a noted [[English (peopl...
6: ...artes|Descartes]] and wrote one of the replies to Descartes' ''Meditations.''
10: ...abandoning his three children to the care of an older brother Francis. Hobbes was educated at Westport...
12: ... Hardwick (and later [[Duke of Devonshire|Earl of Devonshire]]), and began a lifelong connection with ... - Physics (25628 bytes)
2: ...ear particles from which all ordinary matter is made ([[particle physics]]) to the behavior of the mat...
4: ...of the underlying molecules, which are accurately described by areas of physics such as [[quantum mech...
6: ...mathematical physics]], devoted to developing the mathematical structure of physical theories.
15: ...hich no practical experimental test has ever been devised.
19: ...research into more specialized topics, and any student of physics, regardless of his or her specializa... - Scientific method (40667 bytes)
1: ...of building a supportable, [[evidence]]-based [[understanding]] of our natural [[world]].
6: ...ds for scientific inquiry is indivisible from the development of science.
7: ...seased demons and other superstition, there is evidence of traditional empiricism.
9: ...s we experience it reaches an extreme in [[Parmenides]] who argued that the world is one and that chan...
11: ...ricism]]. For Aristotle, the Platonic, universal ideal is to be found in particular things, what he ca...
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