DLP 1
DLP 1
DLP 1
CONCEPT NOTES 1
I. TOPIC: Ancient Greek Physics and Astronomy
III. CONCEPTS
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Plato (c. 427 - c. 347 BC) — attainment of perfection as
absence of change; mathematical symmetries to
demonstrate perfect shapes (sphere and circle); celestial
spheres being crystalline and contains the moon, the Sun
and the stars; explaining the shadows — read on Plato’s
Allegory of the Cave and the Allegory of the Divided Line
— as his description or framework on how to look at the
Universe, in particular that the daily and annual patterns
of the sky must have a greater reality besides its
appearance.
IV. ACTIVITY/EXERCISES
Direction:
Take pictures of the sky using your mobile phones or digital camera. Take the
pictures from the same location and to take precautions in observing the Sun. Arrange
and label the pictures in sequence. From what you’ve seen from the photos, write down
what you have noticed about the movement of the objects in the sky. Describe the change
in position of the stars at different hours of the night.
V. ASSESSMENT
Direction:
Fill in the columns with a timeline showing the possible overlap of the lives of these
philosophers. You may add other philosophers who were contemporaries of the four.
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