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Revolution …
… with a little philosophy and a little of the ‘now’
History of Science…
Most see it as a series of events focused in the period 16th and 17th
century or, more precisely, from 1543 (De Revolutionibus of
Copernicus) to 1687 (Principia of Newton). Others grant it some
status from 1300 to 1800.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exV_u6g56oM
Aristotelian natural philosophy
Aristotelian Cosmology
Sublunar realm:
Natural place and natural motion
Generation and corruption
Four elements: earth, water, air, and fire
Cold, hot, moist, dry, affinity and opposition
Aristotelian Cosmology
The sub-lunar realm
Hippocrates, Airs, Waters, Places
Copernicus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzo8vnxSARg
Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564)
Andrés Vesalio or Andries van Wesel
The replacement of
Classical Physics by
Quantum Physics
was a slow evolution
of ideas.
Max Planck, Einstein,
Niels Bohr, Erwin
Shrödinger, Werner
Heisenberg, Max
Born and others.
Kurt Gödel (1906-1978)
Logician – likened to a
modern-day
Aristotle!
Significance of the
Scientific Revolution
Historian Alexandre Koyre first used the term ‘Scientific
Revolution’ in 1943 when he called it, “the most profound
revolution achieved or suffered by the human mind.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L70T4pQv7P8
Is there a “Post-normal” science?
'Post-Normal Science', a mode of scientific problem-solving appropriate
to policy issues where facts are uncertain, values are in dispute,
stakes are high and decisions are urgent.
Today’s web pages are becoming the equivalent of printing which
empowered the Protestant revolution against the Church.
The scientists vs. the wider, non-scientific community with its new
technological base,” the internet.
Wikipedia, post-normal science
Opens more of science to the democratic process.
Problems:
Critics are not usually researchers and don’t have the facts.
Science vs the needs of politicians and business
Junk science which is manipulated to be made believable.
Conspiracy theorists.
Needed:
Ethics in science, open data, and reform of peer review.
"There are two kinds of scientific progress:
the methodical experimentation and
categorization which gradually extend the
boundaries of knowledge, and the
revolutionary leap of genius which redefines
and transcends those boundaries.
Acknowledging our debt to the former, we
yearn, nonetheless, for the latter."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzo8vnxSARg