Lesson+on+Key+Understandings+(4+Mar)

(Zong Qi, Charlene, Lee Chin, Silvia, Amanda Hsiung, Shi Man)
 * c. Ideas from the past laid foundations for future developments

POV: Royal Society

We think that progress is inevitable! 12th Century Renaissance had allowed trade and shipping to become more widespread, allowing the Muslim world to span from China to Southern Spain. Roger Bacon then used the Muslim's study of optics to further his discoveries where he used the idea of observation, hypothesis, experimentation and verification. Roger Bacon's book drawn references from the Muslim's book of optics and hence contributed to the Scientific Method. Francis Bacon then developed on the idea of experimentation and then further developed by us!

Question D: Solutions bring about more problems.**

__POV: Pope__

Solutions bring about more problems, just like Copernicus the fool! He thought that Ptolemy’s theory of the geocentric model was too complicated to be correct, and came up with his own heliocentric model.

Copernicus claimed that the Earth moved through the heaven as the third orbit from the centre, which was the Sun. How dare he question the truth! How dare he contradict what is stated in the holy scripture! We must contain his atrocious claims for he wants to turn the whole art of astronomy upside down and confuse us. God made the universe to be perfect and that’s the way it is!

The very fact that Copernicus questioned what was taken to be the truth and the ancient authorities angered the church because it suggested that the truth was relative to who you are. These standards will lead to more controversies because there may no longer be right and wrong.

- Siyuan, Stephanie, Wei Lin, Claudia, Nadya

P.O.V: Ambroise Pare** //Je suis un medecin francais qui lire le livre de Vesalius.:)// I am a French physician who studied Vesalius' textbook and made my own contributions to medicine. The great change in medicine started when a Swiss physician, Paraceleus, experimented in Chemistry and challenged Galen's ideas about medicine, for example, Galen's idea that transforming one substance to another was impossible. Even though he failed to win the respect of other scholars, his actions changed some people's mindsets. Soon after that, a professor of anatomy, Andreas Vesalius, corrected some of Galen's most glaring mistakes. His work allowed me to be able to build up on his ideas, and develop an ointment which could prevent infection in wounds.
 * Question E: Change is the collective effort of many individuals.

-Jamie Ng, Meng Qing, Chong Rong, Amanda Eng