- process of investigation (observe, measure, record, base ideas on facts)
- golden ratio/Fibonnacci
- geometryperspective, angles, astrolabe
- new inventions: microscope, compass, clinometer, telescope, sextant
|
- facts about the natural world
--sky/planets (demised of earth-centered universe)
--single cells (Black Plague)
- structure/physiology of human body (origins of disease)
|
- changing facts/ideas/way of seeing the world improves human life
- variablesidea of representing a changing quantity
- topologyprojections (spherical world to flat map, 3D to 2D)
- mathematical/geometrical growth
|