A historical analysis on the study of optics from pre-Socratic times through the age of Newton. By Adam R.
Title: A historical analysis on the study of optics from pre-Socratic times through the age of Newton. By Adam R.
Category: /History
Details: Words: 4108 | Pages: 15 (approximately 235 words/page)
A historical analysis on the study of optics from pre-Socratic times through the age of Newton. By Adam R.
Category: /History
Details: Words: 4108 | Pages: 15 (approximately 235 words/page)
<Tab/>Our lives are constantly influenced by great thinkers of our past. Modern marvels such as the light bulb, televisions, airplanes, and the internet, are all inventions that one could argue have been in the making for the last few millennia. Hellenistic philosophers such as Plato, Socrates, Galen, Ptolemy, Archimedes, and Aristotle, have all helped pave the way for those great scientists of the modern era. One of the oldest studies
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of time. Much like those who came before him, Newton felt the need to explain that intangible force, one that you can see, but can not move. The way we look for answers today, are based on the way that Newton looked for answers more than two centuries ago. To use reason and experimental knowledge to understand the world we live in is truly the way of the natural philosopher.
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