Western Science

• Western Science


  • Greeks were the first to explain the world in terms of natural laws rather than myths about gods and heroes.
• Claudius Ptolemy


  Stated that the planets, as well as the sun and the moon, moved in a circular motion around the Earth ~“Geocentrism”
• Aristotle

  • Most influential figure in Western Science until the 1600s
  • His theories relied very little on experiment.
  • “the natural motion of the earth as a whole, like that of its parts, is towards the center of the Universe: that is the reason why it is now lying at the center.”
  • made important contributions to logic, criticism, rhetoric, physics, biology, psychology, mathematics, metaphysics, ethics, and politics.