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Scientific method and greatest scientists

Main lecture questions

Why is science different?

science begin from sense experiences, not from the authority of scriptual passages

Who is a scientist?

one who use scientific thinking to declare why things are the way they are

What is good science?

Science which accomplish four steps

1- observe and make a hypothesis 2-find a way to test hypothesis 3- experiment 4- publishment of results

What is science?

systematic knowleledge of the physical or material world gained through observation and experiment

Galileo

Galileo's science

Galileo's method was scientific bec. he applied : observation,hypothesis,experiment, publishment

"Great" Galileo

changed the way we understand our world and its place from the universe

martyr for science

Reasons behind his trial

challenging people's authority

failed to offer proof

challenging church's teachings

enemies of keyfigures

His historical backgroud

writings got him into trouble with church

important thinker,scholar and writer

As great "scientist"

first to use telescope to observe the sky

explained the relationship bet. the motion of object, time and distance

Examples of Greatest scientists

*Newton *Einstein *Aristotle *Edison *Marie Curie *Ibn Sina *Galileo