Unit 3 Why Do We Believe That the earth Is Round Warm-Up Activity Can you prove that the earth is round? Go ahead and try! Will you rely on your senses or will you have to draw on the opinions of experts?
Unit 3 Why Do We Believe That the Earth Is Round Warm-Up Activity: Can you prove that the earth is round? Go ahead and try! Will you rely on your senses or will you have to draw on the opinions of experts?
Back Ground Information George bernard Shaw George bernard Shaw °(1856-1950), rih playwright, critic and novelist F is widely considered the greatest British dramatist since Shakespeare, and the greatest British satirist since swift
Back Ground Information • George Bernard Shaw: • George Bernard Shaw • (1856-1950), Irish playwright, critic and novelist, is widely considered the greatest British dramatist since Shakespeare, and the greatest British satirist since Swift
Shaw's plays often ridicule governmental or social hypocrisies of mock the conventions of polite society. In the long prefaces to the printed editions he aired his views on all sorts of subjects. In 1925 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Among his most famous plays are Widowers Houses. Mrs. Warren's Profession, Arms and the man, Man and Superman, Major Barbara, Pygmalion and Saint Joan
• Shaw’s plays often ridicule governmental or social hypocrisies of mock the conventions of polite society. In the long prefaces to the printed editions he aired his views on all sorts of subjects. In 1925 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Among his most famous plays are Widowers’ Houses. Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Arms and the Man, Man and Superman, Major Barbara, Pygmalion and Saint Joan
The Round Earth Theory In the Sixth century BC The Greek Philosopher Pythagoras(毕达哥拉斯) Believed that the earth was a sphere because he considered this the most perfect of shapes, not from any scientific considerations
• The Round Earth Theory • In the Sixth century B.C., • The Greek Philosopher • Pythagoras (毕达哥拉斯）Believed • that the earth was a sphere because he • considered this the most perfect of shapes, not from any scientific considerations
In the fourth century BC both plato and aristotle believed that the earth was spherical (Plato) (Aristotle) Plato, like Pythagoras, accepted this shape because it is the most perfect, but Aristotle relied more strongly on the evidence of the senses: the earth's shadow, during a lunar eclipse, is round
• In the fourth century B.C., • both Plato and Aristotle • believed that the earth • was spherical. (Plato) (Aristotle) • Plato, like Pythagoras, accepted this shape because it is the most perfect, but Aristotle relied more strongly on the evidence of the senses: the earth’s shadow, during a lunar eclipse, is round