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Isabella D
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From this reading, it definitely made an impact in the discipline of science, though I'm not sure how profound.
Since everyones summed this up pretty nicely, a couple thoughts on "no"
-Newton was by no means the first to perform experiments.
-How is this different from all the other big question in the universe? |
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Yqi2013
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I found it very surprising, even shocking to see that Newton's observation of different colors of light was commonly explained by Aristotle's theory. I see a huge huge gap between these two guys.. What happened to science during the years between them? How did scientists ways of approaching physics change? I found I can't really conclude whether the question “what is light?” profoundly changed the discipline of science without looking at all those years in between. Was there no legitimate science at all? Maybe the discipline of science changed gradually; or maybe the search for the essence of light suddenly changed science, but I'll need more evidence to give come up with an answer..
But from what I saw from the reading, the discipline of science was heading toward studying invisible things such as wave of light and magnetic field. That's really something ground-breaking. |
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