The Lesser Gods of Philosophy and Science

Outline:

A. Science rejects the Ptolomaic system and discovers a rational world in mathematical harmony.

B.  Galileo’s life, discoveries and controversies.  “The sun is the center of the world and thus incapable of moving is … stupid and absurd popular science, heretical in form.”

C.  Newton’s calculus and cosmology.  “Every body attracts every other with a force directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.”