ASSIGNMENT 3: METACOGNITIVE READING

REPORT

REFERENCE: Chapters 5 - 7 of Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Copernican Revolution

1) Difficult Concepts
a) Diffuseness and Continued Inaccuracy
b) How Earth, with the Water on it, forms one Sphere
c) Mechanical Solar System
2) Learning Insights
a) Before reading the article, I thought that the revolution was mainly
about physics and religion.
However, after reading the article, I now think/learned that its core
was a transformation of mathematical astronomy.
b) Before reading the article, I thought that this would be a perfect book
between being logical or about belief.
However, after reading the article, I now think/learned that this book
separated the audience for “science” from the audience of “history" and
“philosophy.”
c) Before reading the article, I thought that this ancient discovery was
kind of more philosophical and cosmological.
However, after reading the article, I now think/learned that
mathematical skills were most likely used to reach this discovery.

3) Discussion Questions
a) Were the stars a help in providing evidence for Copernicanism?
b) Can Cosmology be transferred by the existence of Copernicanism?
c) Is this topic still up to relevance and significance to us today?