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- Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ...ation of the ''[[Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica]]'' in [[1687]] by [[Isaac Newton]]. These bounda...
3: ...totelian]]; at its end, science was [[mathematics|mathematical]], [[mechanics|mechanical]], and [[empiricism|em...
7: ...ncor and cross-purposes in such debates may arise from lack of recognition of these fundamental differ...
21: *Inertia and inertial frames of reference
31: ...s by means of light emitted from bodies, not rays from the eye. Giving this important work its full va... - Comet (30542 bytes)
3: ..."dirty snowballs", comets are composed largely of frozen [[carbon dioxide]], [[methane]] and [[water]]...
5: ...ances from the sun consisting of debris left over from the [[condensation]] of the [[solar nebula]]; t...
9: ... the ion tail (gas) always pointing directly away from the Sun, since the gas is more strongly affecte...
11: ...hs of kings or noble men, or coming catastrophes. From ancient sources, such as Chinese oracle bones, ...
21: ...ncke]] has an orbit which never places it farther from the Sun than [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]]. Shor... - History of science (41710 bytes)
6: ...r [[empirical]] [[truth]]. [[Philosophy]] differs from science in that, while both the [[Natural scien...
11: ...fic data is self-evident, value-free, and context-free.
21: ...ccount of the development of (natural) philosophy from ancient times until recent times can be found i...
27: ...rehistoric times, advice and knowledge was passed from generation to generation in an [[oral tradition...
52: ...oration by bringing together people and new ideas from all over the Islamic world. - Robert Hooke (5017 bytes)
4: Born in [[Freshwater]] on the [[Isle of Wight]], Hooke receive...
12: ... balance spring also regulates the flow of energy from the mainspring of a timepiece. It coils and unc...
22: ...prove it. When Newton published his ''[[Principia Mathematica]]'' in [[1687]], including a proof of an inverse ...
27: *[http://freespace.virgin.net/ric.martin/vectis/hookeweb/robe...
29: *[http://freespace.virgin.net/iw.history/hooke/face.htm The F... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
2: ...n also shares credit with [[Gottfried Leibniz|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] for the development of diffe...
4: ...entrism]]. Newton is also credited with providing mathematical substantiation for [[Kepler's laws of planetary ...
23: ...d the [[binomial theorem]] and began to develop a mathematical theory that would later become [[calculus]]. Soo...
25: ...later life, to illustrate how he drew inspiration from everyday events.
31: ...ience). Newton argued that this should exempt him from the normal ordination requirement, and [[Charle... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...rk for the [[American Revolution|American]] and [[French Revolution]]s, the Latin American independenc...
14: ...ne. This idea became central to the Enlightenment from Newton through to Jefferson.
16: ...ation of his ''[[Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica]].''
18: ...ies. If the previous era was the age of reasoning from first principles, Enlightenment thinkers saw th...
20: ...figures such as Sir [[Francis Bacon (philosopher)|Francis Bacon]] with the axiomatic approach of Desca... - Astronomer (4344 bytes)
2: [[image:copernicus.jpg|right|frame|Nicolaus Copernicus.Image provided by [http://...
36: |Published ''Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica'' ([[1687]]), containing the "[[Newton's laws of ... - Thomas Hobbes (26163 bytes)
2: ...Hobbes (portrait).jpg|thumb|Thomas Hobbes: detail from a portrait by John Michael Wright ([[National P...
10: ...t by a young man named Robert Latimer, a graduate from [[Oxford University]]. Hobbes was a good pupil ...
16: ...ps in Paris, held together by [[Marin Mersenne]]. From [[1637]] he considered himself a philosopher.
20: ...tion was then understood. He then singled out Man from the realm of Nature. Then, in another treatise,...
22: ...country riven with discontent which disrupted him from the orderly execution of his philosophic plan. ... - Physics (25628 bytes)
2: ... contexts, ranging from the sub-nuclear particles from which all ordinary matter is made ([[particle p...
6: ...mathematical physics]], devoted to developing the mathematical structure of physical theories.
12: The culture of physics research differs from the other sciences in the separation of [[theor...
15: ...mulation of new theories. Likewise, ideas arising from theory often inspire new experiments. In the ab...
34: | [[Boltzmann's constant]], [[Entropy]], [[Free energy]], [[Heat]], [[Partition function (stati... - Scientific method (40667 bytes)
1: ... the form of [[theory|theories]]. [[Prediction]]s from these theories are tested by [[experiment]]. If...
6: ... of methods for scientific inquiry is indivisible from the development of science.
9: ...hilosophical ideas of this time were mostly freed from the constraints of everyday phenomena and commo...
13: ...dent ''verification''. In the [[17th century]], [[Francis Bacon]] attempted to describe a rational pro...
15: ...h wings, but rather hung with weights, to keep it from leaping and flying. Now this has never been don...
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