Veronica Madarang

BSA- 2

1. Review the history of science and make a timeline highlighting the major discoveries and
developments in science. ( Research at least 20 ) and state the major discoveries , date discovered
and the name of discoverer. You can write your answer on the table provided. .Just add more rows to

Complete your answers.

Date Major discoveries Discoverer

276-194 BC Circumference of the Earth Eratosthenes

c 100 AD Paper Cai Lun
1445 Printing Press Johannes Gutenberg
1590 Microscope Zacharias Janssen
1600 Earth’s Magnetic Field William Gilbert
1608 Telescope Hans Lippershey
1628 Circulation of Blood William Harvey
1666 Law Gravity Sir Isaac Newton
1774 Oxygen Joseph Priestley
1800 Battery Allessandro Volta
1802 Electric Light Humphry Davy
1808 Atomic Theory John Dalton
1816 Camera Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
1826 Gas Stove James Sharp
1846 Anesthesia William Morton
1859 Origin of Species Charles Darwin
1826 Telephone Alexander Graham Bell
1885 Automobile Carl Benz
1895 X-Rays Wilhelm Roentgen
1915 General Theory of Relativity Albert Einstein
1928 Penicillin Alexander Fleming
1943 Chromosomes Oswald Avery
1969 Landing on the Moon Edwin Aldrin and Neil Armstrong
1973 Hand Held Cellphone Martin Cooper
1990 World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee
1997 Cloning (of sheep) Roslin Institute
2006 Reprogramming of Stem Cells Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard
Medical School
2014 Computer Chip that can IBM
Replicate the Human Brain

2. Refer to the power point presentation ( lesson 1) read the contributions of Charles Darwin,
Sigmund Freud & Nicholaus Copernicus and answer the following questions:
A. What is Darwin’s contribution to modern science? Explain.

Charles Darwin’s contribution is his Theory of Evolution by Means of Natural Selection. In this
theory he provided that organisms evolved and changed through heritable physical and
behavioral traits. This paved the way for a scientific reason as to where and how humans
came to be. This theory is well supported by scientific evidences such as genetics,
paleontology and biology. In this theory, it pointed out that all life on earth are interrelated
and explained that diversity exists because of the changes of traits through adapting in an
environment. Today, this theory is still the core to human evolution.

B. How can you describe Freudian idea as a scientist?

The Freudian idea was quite uncommon for a scientist as it was influential. Freud’s means of
obtaining the ideas were questionable in a sense that it does not strictly adhere to scientific
methods of discovery and more on its content. However, he was imaginative and
spearheaded the innovation of psychology starting with the focus on the study of our
unconscious mind. Through this, science was able to move forward with the idea on how the
unconscious mind affects the behaviour, actions and decisions of peoples.

C. How did Heliocentric theory or Copernican theory has changed our understanding about the
universe?

It changed the understanding from an earth-centred universe to a sun-centred universe.

Although this theory was blocked by the church because it did not support the idea of the
church, this theory managed to correct what is believed in the bible that the earth is the
center of the universe and provided a reality. It was able to change the understanding that
the world stood still where it really rotated in an axis. This also paved the way for more
discoveries in our solar system such as the sun only being one of millions of starts, and that
there is more than one galaxy.