Christina

vanilla pudding
Aug 21, 2006
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This is an essay question for my exam tomorrow.....the hell?

2. Rationalism vs. Empiricism in 16th-17th C. Science
Explain the tenets of rationalism. Explain how Descartes’ scientific method and physics exemplify rationalism. Compare and contrast the tenets of rationalism with the tenets of empiricism. Explain the scientific method advocated by Bacon and how it exemplifies empiricism. Illustrate the various steps of the Baconian method, or departures from it, with examples from 16th-17th C. science, in the work of Copernicus, Galileo, Brahe, Kepler, and/or Newton. Be sure to explain Descartes’ and Bacon’s views on the role, if any, theology should play in science.
 

Kate

Moderator
Feb 7, 2011
18,595
This is an essay question for my exam tomorrow.....the hell?

2. Rationalism vs. Empiricism in 16th-17th C. Science
Explain the tenets of rationalism. Explain how Descartes’ scientific method and physics exemplify rationalism. Compare and contrast the tenets of rationalism with the tenets of empiricism. Explain the scientific method advocated by Bacon and how it exemplifies empiricism. Illustrate the various steps of the Baconian method, or departures from it, with examples from 16th-17th C. science, in the work of Copernicus, Galileo, Brahe, Kepler, and/or Newton. Be sure to explain Descartes’ and Bacon’s views on the role, if any, theology should play in science.
Have you read up on it already? Sounds quite straight-forward if they've been over it in lectures.
 

ALC

Ohaulick
Oct 28, 2010
46,542
What Kate said.

Edit: Just read what Christina said. In that case I'd wiki their theories and basically compare and contrast how they work, making correlations between the works of Galileo, etc.
 

Kate

Moderator
Feb 7, 2011
18,595
That's the problem. The notes they have are hardly any help, they're really disorganized. I went to the lecture as well and my professor kept going on about her crush on Galileo.
:lol: I had a prof who had a crush on Quintus from the Cambridge Latin series. At least Galileo isn't a line drawing?

Good luck, love.
 

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