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1 T or F: Galileo postulated that objects of different weights fall at the same rate in a vacuum.
2 T or F: The methodological principle of parsimony is also called Ockham's razor.
3 T or F: Stoics had no reason not to accept Aristarchus’ conjecture of a heliocentric universe.
4 T or F: Sun was one of Ptolomy’s planets in his geocentric system.
5 T or F: In Brahe’s system, Sun is stationary and Earth is orbited by the other planets.
6 T or F: Bohm postulated superluminal (faster than light) connections between things.
7 T or F: Aristotle found that dolphins though warm "blooded" are fish.
8 T or F: Aristotle's chain of being (scala naturae), with each link a species, extends from inanimate matter through ever more complex animals to God.

Apollo 15 http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/ap15fj/index.htm Ockham's razor http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/principle+of+parsimony D’Oresme http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Oresme Copernicus
http://www.astro.umontreal.ca/~paulchar/sp/images/copernicus.html Aristarchus, heliocentric universe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristarchus_of_Samos Cleanthes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleanthes Epicycles on deferents to equants http://faculty.fullerton.edu/cmcconnell/Planets.html Ptolomy, geocentric planets http://faculty.fullerton.edu/cmcconnell/Planets.html#9
Brahe, geocentric system http://creationwiki.org/File:Tychonian_system.png
Galileo, telescopic observation of moons orbiting Jupiter http://www.astro.umontreal.ca/~paulchar/sp/images/galileo.html http://faculty.washington.edu/lynnhank/Experiments.doc http://www.astro.ufl.edu/~lada/ast3018/lectures/ast3018lecture5.pdf
Steger, Not By Design http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/vstenger/cosmo.html Bohm, quantum potential http://ourworldharmony.com/kDavidBo.htm Craig, Reasonable Faith http://notinvain.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/book-review-reasonable-faith-by-william-lane-craig/ Theophrastus http://classicpersuasion.org/pw/diogenes/dltheophrastus.htm
Aristotle, scala naturae http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Aristotle.html

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1 T or F: Aristotle claimed that women have fewer teeth than men.
Aristotle was right when he claimed that "the natural state of motion is rest."
2 T or F: Minkowski's concept of space–time helped Einstein describe gravitation.
3 T or F: Weinberg wryly notes that the great equations that survive are all actually wrong.
Aristotle, women, motion, falling

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2004/2004-09-19.html
http://astro.wsu.edu/worthey/astro/html/lec-persons.html
http://physics.bu.edu/~duffy/py105/Newton.html
Sobel, Galileo’s Daughter
http://collegium.accunet.org/sobel.htm
Minkowski mathematics, Einstein
http://www.answers.com/topic/hermann-minkowski
Dirac, quote
http://www.conservapedia.com/Paul_Dirac
http://taina.aib.ru/english/biography/pol-dirac.htm
Keats, Ode to a Grecian Urn
http://englishhistory.net/keats/poetry/odeonagrecianurn.html
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/urn.html
Great equations
http://www.ams.org/notices/200303/rev-faris.pdf
Variable constants and dry water.
http://scienceweek.com/2005/sb050128-6.htm
   
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1 T or F: For the natural sciences, Occam’s razor can be recast as "the principle of least amazement."

Goldberg http://rubegoldberg.com/aboutRube.php http://www.rubegoldberg.com/ (Animnation)
Alfonso X, The Wise http://www.rpi.edu/~holmes/Hobbies/Genealogy/ps21/ps21_453.htm