Scientific Revolution and the Human Body - MT2 - Part 1 Flashcards
What does science need that technology doesnt?
Literacy
- can be passed from the master to apprentice, verbally or done by a demonstration (experiments of observations)
What was a medieval technology that was important to later science? (3)
- Water wheels
- source of power
- similar to windmills - Trebuchet
- military technology
- leads to how cannons work - Presses
- wine press
- printing press came from modifications of the wine press
What was is custom to think about science and technology?
That science came 1st and technology came 2nd
- not aways the case
- eg) steam engine
What did geographic discoveries bring back to Europe?
New plants and animals
- lead to the implication to understand relationship between organisms
- eg) Sloth from Brazil
Who created the printing press with moveable letters made of durable metal?
Johannes Gutenberg
What did the printing press ignite?
Intellectual revolution allowing faster information diffusion
What was the process of the printing press?
Independent slotting into an array and stamping it onto a paper
What are 5 advantages to the printing press?
- Faster
- Cheaper
- more accessible to everyone - Able to stamp out high quality pictures
- Accuracy vs scriptorium
- Wide spread literacy
What was more prone to errors in the press?
Hand copying
- was also slower
Where was coffee first brewed?
Ethiopia
What did people think coffee house bars were for?
Seduction purposes
What did coffee actually do?
Made people think better and were more alert
What did they drink before tea and coffee?
Alcohol
- used to dull the pain
What did Copernicus argue?
That the sun was the centre of the solar system and not the earth
What shape did Copernicus have the orbits drawn as?
Perfect circles
- from the heavens because it was the perfect shape
What did Johannes Kepler do? (2)
- Casted horoscopes for wealthy people
2. Brought observations and theories into alignment
What did Kepler show?
That planetary orbits were ellipses, not circles
- this was later explained better by Newton
- planets are always speeding up and slowing down
Astrologer
A person who uses astrology to tell others about their character or to predict their future
Astronomer
An expert in or student of astronomy
Who was the first to use a telescope for scientific purposes?
Galileo Galilei
What did Galileo discover?
Celestial imperfections
- sunspots, mountains on the moon and Jupiters moons
What did Galileo think the moons were?
Stars
What did it mean if you saw imperfections on the moon?
That it was more in our realm and not from the gods
What is the language of the gods?
Mathematics
Where was the telescope invented?
Netherlands
What did Sir Isaac Newton entrench?
The idea that the universe operates according to simple, universal, quantitative laws
What is the purpose of science?
Not to investigate nature, but to establish how nature operates
Why are the orbits not circles, but rather ellipses?
The earth is not circulating around the sun its going around a centre of mass
What do moons control?
The tides going in and out everyday
What kind of impact did Newton have on science and why?
He had a negative impact because it was hard to find flaws in biology
