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Chapter 1.1 Flashcards

1
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Techne means

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Art, skill or cunning of hand

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Application of science and creation of system, processes, and object designed to help human in their daily activities

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Technology

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Scientia means

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Knowledge

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It an evolving body of knowledge that is based on theoretical exposition and experimental and empirical activities

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Science

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Societas means

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A friendly association with others

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It is the sum total of our interactions as humans

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Society

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A large group of people who live together in an organized way

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Society

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It is a process of acquiring scientific knowledge

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Science

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It is application of scientific knowledge for people

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Technology

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10
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Group of people who uses technology and who are studying science

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Society

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It is an interdisciplinary course designed to examine the ways that science and technology shape and are shaped by our society politics and culture

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Science technology and society

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What is the two traditionally exclusive culture that science technology society seek to bridge the gap?

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Humanities and natural sciences

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13
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Fact or bluff

To solve our contemporary problems science need to be more multidisciplinary and its practitioner should continue to promote cooperation and integration between social and natural sciences?

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FACT

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Fact or Bluff
In some instances the impact has been harmful or the long term effects give causes for serious concerns

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FACT

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15
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It explores for the purpose of knowing

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Science

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It explorers for the purpose of making something useful from that knowledge

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Technology

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17
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It explores science and technology for a better life

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Society

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18
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Fact or Bluff

Without technology some science experiment would not be possible

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FACT

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19
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Fact or Bluff
Without science technology could not proceed

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FACT

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20
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He was renowned first knowledge of medicine

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Imhotep

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21
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What are the two practical arts in science during ancient times

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Healing practices and metal tradition

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22
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What is the most historians agree about the heart of egyptian medicine

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Trial and error

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23
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One of the early invention of egyptian civilization

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Papyrus

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24
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It became the most respected form of medicine in the known world

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Egyptian medicine

25
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Mesopotamian were making pottery using the first known?

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Potter’s wheel

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After the potter’s wheel mesopotamian use what

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Horse-drawn chariots

27
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What does chinese use to aid themselves in their travels

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Compasses

28
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What are the four great invention of ancient china

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Compass gunpowder paper making and printing

29
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They were the early thinkers and as far as historian can tell they were the first scientists during the advent of science

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Ancient greeks

30
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This period produce substantial advances in scientific knowledge especially in anatomy zoology botany mineralogy geography and mathematics in astronomy.

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The advent of science

31
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It was a period of cultural economic and scientific flourishing in history of islam

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Islamic golden age

32
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During his reign islamic golden age is traditionally understood

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Abbasid Caliph Harun al-Rashid (786 to 809)

33
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Three subject areas in the Islamic scientific achievement

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Astronomy mathematics and medicine

34
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During the islamic golden age, it was useful in determining the Qibla

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Astronomy

35
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Fact or bluff

Astronomy was useful in determining Qibla

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Fact

36
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During islamic golden age, it is applied in agriculture and geography enable scientist to make accurate maps

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Botany

37
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Three people in the golden age who were that lead to advance in algebra trigonometry geometry and arabic numerals

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Al-Khwarizmi, Avicenna and Jamshid Al Kashi

38
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They produce books that contain description of the preparation of hundred of drugs made from medicinal plants and chemical compounds

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Al-Biruni and Avicenna

39
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He stated that gunpowder the compass and the printing press were the three great invention which usured in bourgeois society

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Karl Marx

40
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3 great invention in bourgeois Society

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Gunpowder compass and printing press

41
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This period was considered by many as the golden age of science

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The renaissance

42
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During this period great advances occurred in geography astronomy chemistry physics mathematics anatomy manufacturing and engineer

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Renaissance

43
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In 1453, the rediscovery of ancient scientific text was accelerated after what

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Fall of Constantinople

44
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She coined the term scientific renaissance to designate the early phase of the scientific revolution

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Marie Boas Hall

45
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The two piece model of early modern science who argued by peter Dear

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Scientific renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries and the 17th century

46
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It was the most important technological advance of all in this period

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Printing

47
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It was came to the west from china between 1250 to 1350

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Block printing

48
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Three men of mainz

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Gothenburg, Johan Fust and Peter Schoffer

49
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It was the age of reason and was characterized by radical reorientation in science which emphasize reason over superstition and science of web blind faith

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The enlightenment period

50
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What is the two works that provided the scientific mathematical and philosophical l toolkit for the enlightenment major advance

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Prinsipia mathematica and essay concerning human understanding

51
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It was the steam engine that pose the problem that led by way of a search for a theory of steam power to the creation of thermodynamics

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Industrial revolution

52
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Three main features in industrial revolution

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Technological socio-economic and cultural

53
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What is the formula of theory of relativity including the unifying concept of energy related to mass in the speed of light

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E=mc2

54
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What are the development during the 20th century ?

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Semiconductor and nanotechnology

55
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It was a discovery during 20th century in terms of biology

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Discovery of DNA

56
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It is a way of describing the blurring of boundaries between the physical digital and biological world?

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Fourth industrial revolution

57
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What are the fusion of advances during the port industrial revolution

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Artificial intelligence, robotics the internet of things, 3d printing, genetic engineering quantum computing and other technologies

58
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What are the periods in historical antecedents

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Ancient times 600 BC
THE ADVENT OF SCIENCE
ISLAMIC GOLDEN AGE
ANCIENT CHINA
THE RENAISSANCE
ENLIGHTENMENT PERIOD
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
20TH CENTURY
FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

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