AE Final Flashcards
LA Air Pollution Control District
lots of smog, first one in the world
Donora Smog Incident
acid in smog, 20 people died. 700 hospital, 7000 sick
US Conference on Air pollution/UN Conference on the Eviornment
conferences on air quality
Air Pollution Control Act
designated money for research but didnt do much
Clean Air act
called for limits. Most comprehensive act in the world
iron eyes cody and “keep america Beautiful”
largest community improvent in the world
Crying indian ad
air for kids on sat mornings
federal water pollution control act
didnt do anything
clean water act
placing limits on things put in water like wastes. MOST COMPREHENSIVE TODAY
Tony Espera Oscar de Corti
Fake indian, actually french.
Thomas Spratt
First historian of Science
Joseph Priestley
“Genetic Presentation”, put things in Chronological order
19th century authors
praised scientific community
Auguste Comte and the Scientific Hierarchy
wrote “Exact Sciences” and “non scientific sciences
Henry Adams
made scientific theory for history formula
Scientific Theory for history formula
increase population=more significant events.
predidted world would in in 1914=world war 1
Isis
Leading journal of history of science
osiris
Book reviews by history of science
falsification
not science if it cant be disproved
critiical rationalism
approach findings with questions and continue to refine theory
Thomas Huhn
Paradigm shifts, from one theory to the next
Discovery by
younger people because they have less invested in theory
Bruno Latour
wrote We have never been modern. denies some science
Steven Shapin
Wrote The Scientific Revolution. Talks against scientific revolution
