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Crash Course History of Science

Nullius in verba - in no one words

Natural philosophers

  • Schools of Thoughts
  • Rational debate

What is stuff

Where are we

Presocrates

  1. Thales

  2. Anaximander (the amieron, sundial)

  3. Empedocles

  4. Pythagoras (idealism)

  5. Democritus (Atomism)

Socrates (studied politics and morality)

Socratic method- where you ask a lot of questions (negative hypothesis elimination)

  1. Plato

  2. Aristotle