Thursday, January 21, 2010

astronomy

Hello everyone - wishing you a very prosperous digital new year!

It's been a while since we enjoyed the quite sophisticated blog exchanges that took place toward the end of last semester. I intend to draw on the combined wisdom to be found there and write some comments that I hope will generate some further discussion on those topics and beyond, but, for now, here is something else.

The following link will take you to a book review, of sorts:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/dec/17/galileo-seeing-believing-richard-panek

Please read the piece and see if you can make some connections to our TOK discussions - both recent and older. Think about some of the concepts we have covered.

The most important question is - what can we learn about the nature of the natural sciences from this story?

Hope to see some discussion emerging...

JHK