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Assignment 3. Metacognitive Reading Report

The report identifies three difficult concepts from the reading: 1) Retrograde Motion 2) The Infinite Copernican Universe 3) Corpuscular Universes. For each concept, the report describes Hetutua's pre-reading understanding and how that understanding changed after reading the assigned chapters. The report concludes with three discussion questions about the possibility of new physical laws, potential criticisms of Copernican

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Assignment 3. Metacognitive Reading Report

The report identifies three difficult concepts from the reading: 1) Retrograde Motion 2) The Infinite Copernican Universe 3) Corpuscular Universes. For each concept, the report describes Hetutua's pre-reading understanding and how that understanding changed after reading the assigned chapters. The report concludes with three discussion questions about the possibility of new physical laws, potential criticisms of Copernican

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Assignment 3.

Metacognitive Reading Report

Name: Hetutua, Therese Janine D. Date Submitted: Oct. 23, 2020


Course/Section: BSAC 2B

Instructions: Following the same intellectual revolution assigned to your group during
the earlier presentation, read one of the three articles and accomplish the
Metacognitive Reading Report after.

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

1. Difficult Concepts
a. Retrograde Motion
b. The Infinite Copernican Universe
c. Corpuscular Universes

2. Learning Insights
a. Before reading the article, I thought that
GalileoGalilei was one of the scientists in the era of Copernican
Revolution who accepted the heliocentric model

However, after reading the article, I now think/learned that

Many ideas have emerged during the Copernican Revolution and one of
the ideas is the elliptical orbits. Galileo Galilei used the ideas in the
Copernican Revolution and later discovered the concept of elliptical orbits
along with Kepler. This concept changed the idea from planets revolving in
a circular path to the planets revolving in an elliptical path.

b. Before reading the article, I thought that


The Infinite Copernican Universe is a theory about how the celestial
bodies move in a period of time and the changes that happens over time.

However, after reading the article, I now think/learned that

The diagram of this is like all other early sketches of the Copernican
universe except that the stars are no longer restricted to the surface of the
celestial sphere. No stars occur within the sphere (if they did, there would
be observable stellar parallax), but the infinite space beyond the sphere is
studded with them.
c. Before reading the article, I thought that
Corpuscular Universe is a term used to describe the new discovered
explnation regarding the orbital movement of the celestial bodies in the
universe.

However, after reading the article, I now think/learned that

The Corpuscular Universe early in the seventeenth century atomism


experienced an immense revival. Partly because of its significant
congruence with Copernicanism and partly because it was the only
developed cos mology available to replace the increasingly discredited
scholastic world view, atomism was firmly merged with Copernicanism as
a fundamental tenet of the “new philosophy” which directed the scientific
imagination

3. Discussion Questions
a. Is it possible to have new physical laws that can explain the systems in
the Universe?
b. Are there criticisms with this study of copernican revolution?
c. Was this neglected many times?

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