LESSON#1 Flashcards
Deals with learning new facts (DISCOVERIES) and solving problems (SCIENTIFIC METHOD)
SCIENCE
Deals with creating or inventing things that fulfill our needs and desires or perform certain functions
Application of understanding of natural laws to the solution of practical problems
TECHNOLOGY
The emphasis on the realme of science technology and society may have the same degree of relevance that the_________had in past
HISTORICAL TURN
Which affects philosophy of science as well as philosophy of technology
SOCIAL TURN
Science and technology in the ancient times (through 599 BCE) is divided into three periods
STONE AGE
BRONZE AGE
IRON AGE
Palaeolithic or
OLD STONE AGE
Mesolithic or
MIDDLE STONE AGE
Neolithic or
New stone age
This era is mark by the use of tools by our early human ancestors
PALEOLITHIC
MESOLITHIC
NEOLITHIC
Early humans live in caves or simple hot sorte peace and were hunters and gatherers.
they used basic stone and bone tools as well as crude stone axes for hunting birds and wild animals.
PALEOLITHIC PERIOD
Humans use small stone tools. Now also polish and sometimes crafted with points and attached to antlers, bone to serve as spears and arrows
MESOLITHIC PERIOD
Ancient human switch from hunter or gatherer mode to agriculture and food production.
They domesticated animals and cultivated cereal grains. They use polish hand axes, adzes for ploughing and tilling the land and started to settle in the plains
NEOLITHIC PERIOD
Metalworking advances were made as bronze a copper and tin alloy was discovered.
now use for weapons and tools for animal domestication the harder metal replace it is stone predecessors and the help spark innovations including the ox drawn plow and the wheel
BRONZE AGE
The discovery of ways to heat and forge iron kick of the________
At the time, the metal was seen as more precious than gold, and wrought iron what is here to manufacture than brown
IRON AGE
Develop institutions such as the academy lyceum and museum
where the first to believe that humans could understand the universe using a reason along rather than through mythology or religion
“ANTIQUITY”
STARTED WITH THE RISE OF GREEK CIVILIZATION
Characterized by war between religion and science
DARK AGES
Use of currency replaced by barter
Poverty was endemic and people suffered from wars piracy famine and epidemic
There was a decline of science in europe
MIDDLE AGES
The 20th century witnessed the greatest changes in technology and science that humans have ever witnessed
MODERN AGE
This period also brought advances in architecture and art, including the invention of the Potter’s wheel, and textiles —— clothing consisted of mostly wool items such as skirts, kilts, tunics and cloaks.
BRONZE AGE
Along with mass production of steel tools and weapons, the age so even further advances in architecture in architecture, with for room homes some complete with stables for animals joining more rudimentary hill forts as well as royal palaces temples and other religious structures
IRON AGE
“the more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future”
THEODORE ROOSEVELT