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• Scientific Knowledge

  • What is it?
  • How is it created?

• Description of motion

  • Position, time, velocity
  • View of Galileo vs. Aristotle

• Demonstrations

  • Falling bodies
  • Galileo’s “diluted falling”

• Reading

  • March: Introduction, Ch. 1; Lightman, Introduction
  • Article by Richard Powers on the most important concept of the last milllenium

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