Chapt 1 Flashcards
What is science?
Comes from the Latin word scientia meeding knowledge
What is technology?
A means to an end to any human activities. Reduce human effort
What is society?
A community of people of a common goal
What is STS?
The study of how social, political and cultural values affect scientific research and technological advancements, and vice versa
Challenges of Science and Technology
Prove the origin of the universe.
Position of man in th university.
Origin of man.
Development to society and affects the human life
How does s n t affect man and his way of living?
Electric
Transportation
Community
Farming
Medicine
Direct effects to economy
What are the effects to society?
Face to face with science
Face to face with technology
Periods of SNT
Ancient Period
Middle ages
Renaissance period
First industrial revolution
Second industrial revolution
Late 19th century
20th century
What time was the ancient Period?
3500 bc until 500 Ad
What time was the middle ages?
500 Ad to 15th century
What time was the Renaissance period?
14th to 17th century
What time was the first industrial revolution?
18 th century
What time was the second industrial revolution?
19th century
Inventions in the ancient period
Papyrus 3000 bc
Clock 2000 bc
Inventions in the midieval period
Printing press
Vertical windmil
Spectacles
Mechanical clocks
Watermills
Three field crop rotation
Who invented the printing press?
Johannes Gutenberg
Who rules during the medieval period? And what was is significant contribution
Charlemagne (742-814) established scholastic tradition
What were the significant happenings in the medievale period?
Advancement in philosophy of science
Refinement of scientific method
Adaptation of eastern technologies in the west.
What were the contributions in the Renaissance period?
Printing books
Wood printing
Paper making
Sun is the center of the solar system
Telescope
Who discovered the sun is the center of the universe?
Nicolas copernicus
Who discovered the telescope?
Galileo Galilei
When was the first industrial revolution?
18th century