Philosophy
A paper on Giovanni Battista Riccioli...
What can physics students learn about science from those scientists who got the answers wrong? Your students probably have encountered little science history. What they have encountered probably has portrayed scientists as The People with the Right Answers. But those who got the wrong answers can teach students that in science answers are often elusive -- not found in the back of a book or discovered in a bold stroke of genius.
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"TEACHING GALILEO? GET TO KNOW RICCIOLI! WHAT A FORGOTTEN ITALIAN ASTRONOMER CAN TEACH STUDENTS ABOUT HOW SCIENCE WORKS " by Christopher M. Graney
Giovanni Battista Riccioli [Wikipedia]
Images of the Universe from Antiquity to the Telescope
- What Is/ought To Be The Purpose Of Science Education?
I've been reading classic texts in alchemy the last few days. Interesting stuff. It's for the textbook in the history and philosophy of science that I am working on and the central idea is to have students pick the science of their interest and...
- The Journey Begins
Welcome ?We are what we think, all that we are arises with our thoughts, with our thoughts we make the world.? This phrase attributed to the Buddha emphasis the idea that our systems of knowledge form our understanding of the world around us and in turn...
- Putting Cosmology In Its Place...a Good Thing
It is comforting to know that I am not alone in these views. Abstract... Cosmology differs in some respects significantly from other sciences, primarily because of its intimate association with issues of a conceptual and philosophical nature. Because...
- Giovanni Battista Riccioli And Jupiter's Cloud Belts
"The recent disappearance of one of Jupiter‟s cloud belts...has attracted significant attention from the scientific media (Phillips 2010). While this recent disappearance of a cloud belt is dramatic, changes in the clouds of Jupiter occur from time...
- Francesco Maria Grimaldi...giambattista Riccioli's "almagestum Novum"--the Moon
Francesco Maria Grimaldi, an Italian Jesuit, was born on this date in 1618. "In the late 1640s, he produced a large and detailed map of the moon, based on his own observations. His fellow Jesuit and Bolognese, Giambattista Riccioli, then invented a...
Philosophy
Riccioli...not a cough drop but an astronomer
A paper on Giovanni Battista Riccioli...
What can physics students learn about science from those scientists who got the answers wrong? Your students probably have encountered little science history. What they have encountered probably has portrayed scientists as The People with the Right Answers. But those who got the wrong answers can teach students that in science answers are often elusive -- not found in the back of a book or discovered in a bold stroke of genius.
Read the rest...
"TEACHING GALILEO? GET TO KNOW RICCIOLI! WHAT A FORGOTTEN ITALIAN ASTRONOMER CAN TEACH STUDENTS ABOUT HOW SCIENCE WORKS " by Christopher M. Graney
Giovanni Battista Riccioli [Wikipedia]
Images of the Universe from Antiquity to the Telescope
- What Is/ought To Be The Purpose Of Science Education?
I've been reading classic texts in alchemy the last few days. Interesting stuff. It's for the textbook in the history and philosophy of science that I am working on and the central idea is to have students pick the science of their interest and...
- The Journey Begins
Welcome ?We are what we think, all that we are arises with our thoughts, with our thoughts we make the world.? This phrase attributed to the Buddha emphasis the idea that our systems of knowledge form our understanding of the world around us and in turn...
- Putting Cosmology In Its Place...a Good Thing
It is comforting to know that I am not alone in these views. Abstract... Cosmology differs in some respects significantly from other sciences, primarily because of its intimate association with issues of a conceptual and philosophical nature. Because...
- Giovanni Battista Riccioli And Jupiter's Cloud Belts
"The recent disappearance of one of Jupiter‟s cloud belts...has attracted significant attention from the scientific media (Phillips 2010). While this recent disappearance of a cloud belt is dramatic, changes in the clouds of Jupiter occur from time...
- Francesco Maria Grimaldi...giambattista Riccioli's "almagestum Novum"--the Moon
Francesco Maria Grimaldi, an Italian Jesuit, was born on this date in 1618. "In the late 1640s, he produced a large and detailed map of the moon, based on his own observations. His fellow Jesuit and Bolognese, Giambattista Riccioli, then invented a...