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| Antistatic |
| My references section is about 10% of the length of the actual essay lol |
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| Teflon_Teapot |
| quote: | | hey do any of you find it interesting reading old journal papers on topics that are now commonly accepted but then were not widely known or accepted? i'm reading a paper by wilson called "continental drift" which was published before plate tectonics was established, and i think its really interesting to read about ideas and concepts that are now taken for granted or assumed but then were either controversial ideas or not even invented/existed yet! ie now everybody knows (well i mean like everyone doing geology) that the plates (they didn't have plates then, just continents!) move around and we had supercontinents and stuff, but at the time people talking about stuff like that were laughed at and told "get stuffed thats prepostorous". anyways i think its pretty interesting... |
i have got a book called standing on the shoulders of giants, and it basically has the theories of copernicus, kepler, newton and einstein. i also did a subject called the history and philosophy of astronomy, which studied texts from ancient greece up until copernicus and some of the things that are written if you take them in context with the time they were written are incredible. although the language that they use is very bizarre and hard to understand. |
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| Philby |
| quote: | Originally posted by Teflon_Teapot
i have got a book called standing on the shoulders of giants, and it basically has the theories of copernicus, kepler, newton and einstein. i also did a subject called the history and philosophy of astronomy, which studied texts from ancient greece up until copernicus and some of the things that are written if you take them in context with the time they were written are incredible. although the language that they use is very bizarre and hard to understand. |
haha yeah it would have been crazier back then, ie "the earth is not the centre of the universe? blasphemy! recant, or die!!!" :crazy:
i wouldn't mind reading some of the old original ideas. but even newton was influenced a lot by religion with some of his stuff, its cool how people can come up with things that go totally against what is set in stone so to speak and stick by them, and then get proved right later hehe. how long did it take for the catholic church to accept galileos ideas? i think it was a few hundred years for anything official? |
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| Philby |
| oh yeah one exam out of the way w00t!!! i think i did good too!!! :D :D :D |
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| alex_cooke |
| quote: | Originally posted by Philby
oh yeah one exam out of the way w00t!!! i think i did good too!!! :D :D :D |
Yeah, got my first exam out of the way today too. Ick. So glad its over, i also think i did really well cause the topic for the language analysis and point of view were really easy for me (how technology can help communication).
Happy now, only 5 exams to go before its all over (well, High school anyway)
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