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The reason is that electromagnetic energy, such as that emitted by the Sun, requires no material medium in which to travel. Despite its name, a closed system permits the exchange of energy with the environment but does not allow matter to pass back and forth between the external environment and the system. Thus, Earth absorbs electromagnetic energy, radiated from the Sun, yet very little matter enters or departs Earth’s system. Note that Earth is an approximation of a closed system: actually, some matter does pass from space into the atmosphere and vice versa.
D. 100–170) rejected it in favor of a much smaller, much less correct figure. Thus, Ptolemy may deserve some of the credit for discovering the New World: if Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) had known just how far it was around Earth, he might not have been so confident about sailing off into the seas to the west of Europe. 38 VOLUME 4: REAL-LIFE EARTH SCIENCE Ptolemy’s rejection of Eratosthenes’s measurement was far from his only negative contribution to the history of science. Influenced by highly misguided concepts handed down from Aristotle himself (see Earth, Science, and Nonscience), he developed a complex cosmology that depicted Earth as the center of the universe.
As thinkers within a particular discipline or theory begin to define the governing paradigm, they are much like an eye doctor testing various lenses on a patient. In such a situation, there is no one lens that is right for all circumstances. Rather, it is a question of finding the lens that best suits the patient’s vision needs. All sciences are gradually changing, evolving models that better suit the data under their consideration. Chemistry, for instance, was once primarily a matter simply of mixing chemicals and observing their external processes.