Triumph Of Modern Science Over Medieval Superstition

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Johannes Kepler And The Triumph Of Modern Science Over Medieval Superstition - Best Of Carl Sagan's Cosmos (Part 18).

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BEST OF CARL SAGAN'S "COSMOS":

1) 10 Years After: Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan Reflect:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leTNfwfH0Jc
2) Lost Between Immensity And Eternity:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIVsDg6U0LU
3) The Realm Of The Galaxies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1axoV6HhWfI
4) Our Galaxy, The Milky Way:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOazBTHzRYA
5) Our Solar System:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBqjob-UVeo
6) Eratosthenes And The Round Earth Model:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en5UKtcNujI
7) The Library Of Alexandria:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVQs4B2jAW0
8) A Short History Of The Universe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n2r0qOxJ6k
9) Artificial And Natural Selection:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3uToVWZkWM
10) The Cosmic Year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFqbm_94nTM
11) Tree Of Life - 4 Billion Years Of Evolution:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF0UECN4ndA
12) The Miracle Of Life:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOyojWeOYNA
13) DNA - The Common Basis Of Life:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecmuvjSykf8
14) Abiogenesis - The Origin Of Life:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yet1xkAv_HY
15) Astronomy vs Astrology:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImaQS9NJ0nI
16) Pictures In The Sky:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwCAwc4bge4
17) Ancient Astronomy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-5dwJwau1Y
18) Triumph Of Modern Science Over Medieval Superstition:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lfmRqT-B_c
19) The Mysterious Tunguska Event:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irVof7adq4s
20) Life Beyond Earth - Origin Of Life In The Universe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7ivTdcHYvI

Carl Edward Sagan, Ph.D. (1934-1996) was an American astronomer, astrochemist, author, and highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics and other natural sciences. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI).

He is world-famous for writing popular science books and for co-writing and presenting the award-winning 1980 television series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage", which has been seen by more than 600 million people in over 60 countries, making it the most widely watched PBS program in history.

A book to accompany the program was also published. He also wrote the novel "Contact", the basis for the 1997 Robert Zemecki's film of the same name starring Jodie Foster.

During his lifetime, Sagan published more than 600 scientific papers and popular articles and was author, co-author, or editor of more than 20 books. In his works, he frequently advocated skeptical inquiry, secular humanism, and the scientific method.

• http://www.carlsagan.com

Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer, and key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution. He is best known for his eponymous laws of planetary motion, codified by later astronomers based on his works "Astronomia nova", "Harmonices Mundi", and "Epitome of Copernican Astrononomy". They also provided one of the foundations for Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation.

During his career, Kepler was a mathematics teacher at a seminary school in Graz, Austria, an assistant to astronomer Tycho Brahe, the court mathematician to Emperor Rudolf II, a mathematics teacher in Linz, Austria, and an adviser to General Wallenstein. He also did fundamental work in the field of optics, invented an improved version of the refracting telescope (the Keplerian Telescope), and helped to legitimize the telescopic discoveries of his contemporary Galileo Galilei.

Kepler lived in an era when there was no clear distinction between astronomy and astrology, but there was a strong division between astronomy (a branch of mathematics within the liberal arts) and physics (a branch of natural philosophy).

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Kepler
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[cayetanoluis]

138 people prefer medieval superstition even while they use a computer.

There sure are some dumb-ass motherfuckers in this world.

[m0nkey13]

Man, I miss Carl Sagan. We could sure use his reason and critical thinking today.

[deanmullen10]

I love how society progresses, personally the way I live my life is by working to advanced myself, to evolve myself, its led me to atheism & becoming a vegetarian, I suggest it as a good way of thinking to just look at the logic from science & ethical consistencies and judge your decisions in life and how to live it by that and not simply by what others tell you.

But if this type of thinking leads to realize "life is meaningless" don't worry, all you have to do is not care about that fact.

[Flusercom]

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[Spasatcom]

Thanks for shared.. Goood Video.

[dewinthemorning]

An inspiring video, because Carl Sagan can relate historical facts and scientific explanations in such an exciting and engaging manner!

[gethsoftware]

@socratus1 using god to discribe nature is just distracting. nature has allready a name, use it.

[socratus1]

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree

- Einstein

What is it name?

The name of this tree is Vacuum

#

‘ It might even give us some ground to speculate that

the vacuum itself (and hence the universe) is ‘conscious’

# If we were looking for something that we could conceive

of as God within the universe of the new physics, this ground state, coherent quantum vacuum might be a good place to start - Book - The quantum self page 208 - Danah Zohar

[art448]

this guy sounds like agent Smith in good mood :)

[1tabligh]

@Cootabux How can it be supposed that belief in the existence of God is the acceptance of contradiction, whereas belief in the uncaused nature of an effect such as matter is not contradictory?

How could it be believed that matter should itself be the origin of millions of attributes and characteristics and thus be the equivalent of the purposeful, wise and all-knowing Creator?

[Cootabux]

1tabligh

I assure u that it isn't atheists and science that's deluded. No one more than the theist is fantasy prone. Millions of them declare their god exists but can't even agree on that god. What's more, they can''t remotely define it, but swear it's real!

And I don't know any scientist or atheist who has ever said he believes that particles create themselves, then everything else. The huge mistake theists make about the BB is that it's a creation event, rather than a natural, ongoing process?

[Cootabux]

I heard Carl Sagan use and explain his expression "star stuff" and I've never forgotten it, and it often comes to mind when ever the subject of Cosmology comes up.