Intellectual Revolution Flashcards
Concerning the Revolutions of the Celestial World
Ptolemy/Copernicus
1543
What year, Copernicus death
1543
His calculations showed that those orbits were elliptical.
Johannes Kepler
First to successfully use math to define the workings of the cosmos.
Galileo Galilei
The Starry Messenger
Galileo Galilei
1611
Dialogue on the Great World Systems
Galileo Galilei
1632
It technically did not preach the copernican theory (which Galileo believed in}, but was only a dialogue presenting both views “equally”.
Dialogue of the Great World Systems
The first comprehensive attack on the Aristotelian/Ptolemaic cosmic model.
Galileo’s work
Prinicipia Mathematica
Isaac Newton
1687
Often seen as the start of the Enlightenment.
Prinicipia Mathematica
The Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
1859
Natural Theology
Wiliiam Paley
1802
The Bridgewater Treatises
Written by eminent scientists
1833 to 1840
Sigmund Freud
Birth and Death
1856 to 1939
Freud is still important in Western thought. Why?
2 reasons
Practical Significance
Psychological Perspective
The most advanced Mesoamerican civilization
Maya civilization
Period where most accurate calendar ever designed.
Mesoamerica
Maya civilization
Manufacturer of rubber
Public sanitation (public latrines)
Mesoamerica
Aztec civilization
Only cultivated plant that was developed so early in human history that it’s wild ancestor is no longer known.
Maize
Year when several sculptures found at Meso-american sites
1975, 1979, 1983
Dates back to 2000-1500 BC
The most notable country in asia in terms of scientific and technological achievement, particularly in terms of electronics and automobile products.
Japan
Country that moving away from hardware production, instead turning to software and content development.
Taiwan
Their greater progress was made in astronomy and mathematics
Mesopotamia
They remained far behind the Mesopotamians in developing astronomy.
Egyptians
Mesopotamian medicine was less advanced than that of ___.
Egypt
Egyptians took an early lead at
Engineering and Architecture
They led in the development of such practical arts as irrigation.
Mesopotamian
They are the one to invent the alphabet
Ancient Middle east
Greatest accomplishment of ancient Middle East
Alphabet
It contributed vastly to the greek cultural and literary revolution in the immediately following period.
Alphabet
Applied sciences in Africa
Agronomy
Metallurgy
Engineering
Textile production
Medicine
‘New World’
West Africa
Demonstrates the legacy of enslaved Africans to the Americas in the sphere of rice cultivation.
Black Rice
Judith Carnoy
African plants adopted in Asia
Coffee
Oil palm
Fonio and Acha ( digitaria exilis)
African rice (oryza glabberima)
Sorghum bicolor
Integrated within contemporary pharmaceutical systems
Hoodia gordonii
Combrettum caffrum
Africa’s areas of scientific investigation
Astronomy
Physics
Mathematics
He has deepened our understanding of Malian cosmological needs and their perceptions of the structure of matter and the physical world.
Laird Scranton
Using extensive collection of Marcel Griaule
Who calculated the volumes of masonry and building materials, as well as the slopes of pyramids, for construction purposes.
Nubian builders
He is the owner of the pyramid
Nubian King Amanikhabale
First century BCE
It is well known for orthopedics (bone setting) as is the case of Funtua in Northern Nigeria.
Borgu
Two place where knowledge of specific medicinal plants was quite extensive.
Aksum and Borgu
Causes of Information Revolution
Advances in semiconductor technology
MOSFET
IC chip
MOSFET
Metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor
Year when microprocessor chip was invented
1971
Intel
UFCS
Undersea Fiber Communication Systems
2002
Year when the first submarine cable was built
1858
Sir Thomson and Cyrus Field
Guttapercha to
Polyethylene
