European scientific revolution 2 Flashcards
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Hoe did the Florentine codex influence the European scientific revolution?
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- When Europeans came into contact with the Aztec, they were able to collect massive amounts of knowledge the Aztec knew, and collected it all in this books
- detailed knowledge of medicinal properties of plants and animals
2
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Who ‘revolutionized’ knowledge and practice of human anatomy in Europe? How?
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- Andreas Versalius
- attended many human dissections, gained lots of skills and practice, was well renowned in human anatomy
3
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who developed Paradigm shift?
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Thomas Kuhn
4
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what is the concept of paradigm shift?
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- a fundamental change in the basic ideas and methodologies of a scientific discipline
- seeing the same information in a different way
- describes the messy reality of science, and not a clean idealized version
5
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What is an example of paradigm shift?
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- Geocentrism to heliocentrism
6
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What are some reasons geocentrism was the dominant model for thousands of years?
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- Sensation: we don’t feel the earth moving, so we assume everything is revolving around us
- religious reasons
- Aristotle: favoured the geocentric model
7
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Who was Francis Bacon?
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- considered the ‘father’ of modern science
- thought that through better education based on science, this would lead to more scientific breakthroughs, and then lead to betterment of humanity
8
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What did the Baconisn/inductive method emphasize?
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- empiricism and experimentation
- scepticism of authorities and ones own biases
- importance of negative instances
- repeatability
9
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Rene Descartes had a reductionist approach to science. what are the 4 primary steps he used?
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- accept nothing as true that is not self-evident
- divide complex problems to simplest components
- solve problems from simple to complex
- reevaluate steps 1 to 3
