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38 Cards in this Set
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Artist who made urinal fountain in 1917 ("it's art because I'm the artist and i think it's art") |
Marcel Duchamp |
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Histiographical approach where it's believed that scientists make discoveries without being influenced by social factors |
internal approach |
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Histiographical approach where it's believed that external factors shape the development of science |
external approach |
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Author of "The structure of scientific revolutions", internal approach |
Thomas Kuhn |
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Author of :Puritanism and the Rise of Modern Science", external approach |
Robert Merton |
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Author of "The Sociological Origins of Modern Science", external approach |
Edgar Zisel |
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Author of "Empires and Communications", external approach |
Harold Innis |
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Author of "The origins of Modern Science", internal approach |
Herbert Butterfield |
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When was the Scientific Revolution? |
1543-1700 |
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What was the Scientific Revolution? |
Shift from asking why the universe works to how does the universe work |
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Believed that there was no single scientific revolution but many small revolutions (paradigm shift) |
Thomas Kuhn |
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Believed that Scientific/Industrial Revolutions weren't caused by scientific endeavors but by puritan protestants |
Robert Merton |
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Believed scientific/industrial revolutions were caused by craftsmen who became scientists |
Edgar Zisel |
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Believed Scientific/Industrial Revolutions were caused by free access to knowledge and communications |
Harold Innis |
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Believed Scientific approach originated in Europe in 1277AD |
Herbert Butterfield |
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Created the Almagest |
Ptolemy |
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Year Almagest was created |
150AD |
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What was the Almagest? |
1st mathematical model of csomos geocentrism and epicycles |
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Where did Nicolaus Copernicus study before he studied medicine, and where did he study medicine? |
Toron University, then studied medicine at Padua |
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Was Nicolaus Copernicus a devoted Christian? |
Yes |
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Who was Nicolaus Copernicus' works inspired by? |
Ptolemy |
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Main features of Nicolaus Copernicus' cosmos (3 things) |
heliocentric stars were fixed planets orbited
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A publication of Nicolaus Copernicus that was forbidden by the church |
"De Revolitionibus Orbium Coelestium" |
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When was "De Revolitionibus Orbium Coelestium" published? |
1543 |
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Who made the first mechanical clock in Europe? |
Sir Richard of Wallingford |
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When was the first mechanical clock in Europe introduced? |
in 1327 |
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Who was the first man to compare the universe to a machine (clock) and refer to God as "The supreme watchmaker" |
Nicholas Oresme |
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Astronomer who opposed Aristotelian logic and supported copernicus' heliocentrism |
Galileo Galilei |
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European astronomer who invented 30x magnificaiton telescope and was the first to point a telescope at the sky |
Galileo Galilei |
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Found observational proof that Earth moved around the sun |
Galileo Galilei |
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What year was "Starry Messenger" published? |
1610AD |
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Who wrote "Starry Messenger" |
Galileo Galilei |
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European astronomer that discovered sunspots, proving that heavenly bodies are all not perfect spheres |
Galielo Galilei |
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Why was Galileo not sentenced to death for his beliefs |
was very good friends with the pope |
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What year was the book "Dialogue" published and what was it about? |
1632AD, was a dialogue between an ptolemaic astronomer and a copernican astronomer, the ptolemaic astronomer was written as an idiot |
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Who wrote "Dialogue" |
Galileo Galilei |
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What did Galileo use as his defence in why we do not feel the earth rotating? |
the ocean tides (which is false) |
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What was Galileo sentenced to? |
House Arrest |
