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Summary

This is NOT a complete summary. The slides present more information, but this is NOT meant to be a complete summary of the cousre thus far.
Main points:

• What is scientific knowledge?
• Developments during recorded history
• Classical Greek Civilization
• Dark Ages of Europe/ Golden Age of Islam
• Rennaisance Period
• Culminating in Newton's work
• The secomnd law of thermodynamics adds important new understanding
• Profound effect upon our ideas
• The final authority is experiment in scientific questions
• Our place in the universe
• Next Time: Exam 1
• Covers March, Chapts. 1-5, Lightman, Chapts 1-2, and other materials given in lectures and homework