Valuing Patterns and the Continuing Emergence of Eurocentric Science

Abstract

So far we have examined some of the questions and experimental explorations of classical theoretical claims, such as the nature of motion, and how some notions of atoms or corpuscles and vacuums, provided space for scholars to begin to critically examine the claims embedded in an Aristotelian worldview. At the same time some Europeans, especially Portuguese explorers under the support of Prince Henry the Navigator, had begun a process of discovery that later was to involve other European countries including Spain, France, Holland, and England seeking to expand their spheres of influence across the Earth. The extent of European memory about the structure and extent of the Earth and its continents and oceans can be noted in the image of Ptolemy’s map from his book, Geographia (First published about 150 CE), which was an attempt to record the extent of Roman knowledge of the world in the second century.