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Midquiz - Flash Dates + Grand Theories Flashcards

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inventero of paradigm theory, history of science. Published the Structure of Scientific Revolutions

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Thomas Kuhn

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When was the Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn published

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1962

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What was the first step of determining an analytic or experimental guide to research? Which argument established it? What era

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Boyle v Hobbes in 1660. Boyle built an air contraption to show vacuum at work. Went from theory to causes to observations to theory.

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A Puritan minister who was a proponent of Newtonian science. Published the Christian Philosopher in 1721

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Cotton Mather

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When did Thomas Jefferson send Lewis & Clarke on a mission of knowledge?

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1803

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The Year the Coast Survey program started in the US and who originally ran it

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1807 & led by Hassler. Alexander Bache took over in 1843

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The first Yale professor of chemistry and natural history hired in 1801 & who started the American Journal of Science and the Arts in 1818

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Benjamin Silliman

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When was the American Journal of Science & the Arts

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1818

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When was West Point founded? And when was Alexander Bache made a professor of engineering there?

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1802, 1825

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The true proponent of the Coast Survey and when did he start working for the Coast Survey

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Alexander Bache. 1843

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A court case that started the conversation of whether scientists were truly and officially experts and could have their knowledge taken as fact

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James Maurice vs Samuel Judd in 1818. Samuel Judd refused to pay taxes on whale oil because it wasn’t fish oil.

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the ROCKSTAR scientist of the 19th century scientists. Prominent naturalist, Austrian(?).

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Baron Alexander von Humboldt

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When the Smithsonian fund left behind finally was established with a secretary, board, and building

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1846

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Went to Walden Pond and studied it to extreme detail in 1846

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Henry David Thoreau

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Sarah Stone published her book/guide on midwifery

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1737

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Length of time of this person’s diary described her daily rituals, including those of midwifery

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1785 - 1812, Martha Ballard

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pioneered small pox vaccine by testing his gardner’s son

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Edward Jenner

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Two main Geology questions

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Uniformitarian (slowly changing over time) v catastrophic (sudden, dramatic changes)
Neptunism (accretion and deposition by water) v Plutonism (upwelling and spewing of molten matter from beneath)

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Stole mill/industrial spinning technology from England (who had it highly protected at the time) & brought it to the US and period it was stolen. When was his mill built?

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Samuel Slater (Slater the Traitor), invented tech in 1760s. Built mill in RI in 1793

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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

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“giraffe’s neck will grow longer as it grows, and then pass it to children.” Continuous spontaneous generation theory, so simpler forms just hadn’t had as much time to evolve

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uniformist geologist whose books influenced Darwin during his worldly voyage

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Charles Lyell

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years that Darwin was on his voyage

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1831-1836

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publication date of Origin of Species

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1859

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Two important figures who brought Darwin’s theory in America

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Louis Agassiz (founded comparative zoology) & Asa Gray (botanist with correspondance between he and Darwin)

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two people who applied Darwin’s theories to humans

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Herbert Spencer - coined survival of the fittest (1864)

William G. Spencer - advanced Social Darwinist position (1883)

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when was survival of the fittest coined?

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1864

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when was Harvard created?

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1636

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A bill that provided states with 30,000 acres to establish and fund educational institutions that focused on agriculture, mechanics, and to educate industrial classes. And when was it authorized?

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Morill Land Grant Act in 1862

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Acts that helped support the Morill Land Grant Act, one that funded research and a second that funded dissemination of knowledge collected and what years they were founded

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Hatch Act (1887) = research
Smith-Lever (1914) = disemmination
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A second land grant act aimed at equality of education in Southern states, led to the founding of many of the historically black colleges

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Second Morill Act in 1890

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This university was founded in 1876 based on European graduate education

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John Hopkins

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two people who pushed the boundary in germ discovery. 1 determined the germ theory, in which year? the other in anthrax, in which year?

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Louis Pasteur - 1861

Robert Kock - 1876

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a prominent antivaxxer after her child died

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Laura Little

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traced cholera outbrea to a single water pump

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John Snow, 1854

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The Three Industrial Revolutions, time estimates, and focus

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First IR (1760 - 1840) - textile, replacing human/animal power
Second IR (1840s - 1950s) - transportation, communication, source of power (electricity)
Third IR (1950s-today) - information technologies
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Relationship between Society and Innovation

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  • The Development of Germ Theory (1860s-1900s)
  • -> As people move away from miasma theory, cities love this new idea, take it up.
  • -> First a voluntary phase, not necessary. Then existing policies and social norms as information spreads and becomes an established part of life.
  • -> Societal changes bring opposition (antivax).
  • -> Use these norms to help continue or support the existing social constructs (discrimination against Chinese)
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How should we define a “paradigm shifts” and does certain things qualify as a paradigm shift?

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  • Def: Science changes via revolutions
  • People come up with new theories during a crisis phase, and one of these theories will win & signal shift
  • God/Creationism —> Evolution (Darwin emerging from the the crisis, social reaction to Darwin)
  • Miasma –> Germ Theory
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a scientist who believed that species organized by divine intelligence, no evolution or change, but species could happen at any given moment

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Georges Cuvier

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