LESSON 1:

INTELLECTUAL REVOLUTIONS
THAT DEFINED SOCIETY
Science

• idea
• intellectual activity
• body of knowledge
• a personal and social activity
Science Revolution: How can science
defined?
• IDEA

 Ideas
 Theories
 Explanation
 Observation
Science

• INTELLECTUAL ACTIVITY

 Systematic and practical study

 Systematic observation
 Experimentation
Science

• BODY OF KNOWLDEGE

 “ SCHOOL SCIENCE”
Science
• A PERSONAL AND SOCIAL ACTIVITY

 Both knowledge and activities done by human

beings
 Interwoven with people’s lives
Scientific Revolution
• a very significant in the development of human
beings, society, and formulation of scientific ideas.
• Period of enlightenment

SCIENCE
IDEAS

SCIENTIFIC
REVOLUTIONS

HUMANS SOCIETY

Figure 1. Influences to Scientific Revolution

Nicolaus Copernicus

Charles Darwin

Sigmund Freud
Nicolaus Copernicus
• Mathematician and
astronomer who formulated
a model of the universe that
placed the Sun rather than
the Earth at the center of the
universe.

• De revolutionibus orbium
coelestium
(On the Revolutions of the
Heavenly Spheres) (1543)
Charles Darwin • Theory of Evolution by
means of Natural
Selection

•He embarked on a 5-year

survey voyage around the
world on the HMS Beagle

• The Origin of the Species

(1589)

• The Descent of Man –

impressive but
controversial
Sigmund Freud

• Father of Psychology

• He revolutionized the
psychology in his “Theory
of Psychoanalysis”.
Development of Science in Mesoamerica
Development of Science in Asia
Development of Science in Africa
Maya Civilization
Inca textiles
Aztec civilization contributions:

Chinampa
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

• pioneered the science of

experimental medicine
and was the first
physician to conduct
clinical trials

• Book of healing & The

Canon of Medicine
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