SAN PEDRO COLLEGE – MAIN CAMPUS

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY
LECTURER: MRS. NICEY TUBERA

and chemistry transformed the views of

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society and nature.
WEEK 8 o The scientific revolution began in Europe
towards the end of the Renaissance period
I. THE LEAP OF SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY DURING THE and continued through the late 18th century,
SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION influencing the intellectual social movement
(A.D. 1600 - A.D 1700) known as the Enlightenment.
II. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
DEVELOPMENT II. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
A. NICOLAUS COPERNICUS DEVELOPMENT
B. WILLIAM GILBERT
C. TYCHO BRAHE A. Nicolaus Copernicus
D. JOHANNES KEPLER
E. SIR FRANCIS BACON
F. GALILEO GALILEI
G. RENE DESCARTES
H. ANTOINE VAN LEEUWENHOEK
I. ISAAC NEWTON
J. ALEXANDRE KOYRE
K. JOHN LOCKE
L. ROBERT BOYLE
M. HANS LIPPERSHEY, ZACHARIAS
JANSSEN & JACOB METIUS ● In 1543, De revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
N. EVANGELISTA TORRICELLI is often cited as marking the beginning of the
scientific revolution.
I. THE LEAP OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ● De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium - on the
DURING THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION (AD Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, the
1600 - AD 1700) seminal work on the heliocentric theory of the
astronomer, Nicolaus Copernicus of the Polish
Renaissance.

B. William Gilbert (1544 - 1603)

• Discussion:
o Scientific revolution was the emergence
of modern science during the early modern
period, when developments in ● published books On the Magnet and Magnetic
mathematics, physics, anatomy, biology Bodies, and the Great Magnet the Earth in

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 SAN PEDRO COLLEGE – MAIN CAMPUS
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY
LECTURER: MRS. NICEY TUBERA

1600, which laid the foundations of a theory of
magnetism and electricity.
● He provided a hyper-empirical study of
magnets, magnetism and electricity with
speculations about cosmology.
C. Tycho Brahe (1546 - 1601)
o First two of his three laws of planetary
motion in 1609
o Ad Vitellioem Paralipomena Quibus
Astronomiae Pars Optica Traditor (The
Optical Parts of Astronomy)
o Astronomia Nova (New Astronomy)
o Harmonice mundi (Harmonies of the
World)

E. Sir Francis Bacon (1546 - 1601)

● A Danish nobleman known for his accurate

and comprehensive astronomical and
planetary observations. He was assisted by
● published Novum Organum in 1620, which
Johannes Kepler.
● Discovered the “Tycho’s Star” or the “Star of outlined a new system of logic based on the
1572.” process of reduction, which he offered as an
● Proposed a system in which the sun and moon improvement over Aristotle’s philosophical
orbited the earth, while the other planets process of syllogism.
● He was a pivotal figure in establishing the
orbited in the sun.
● Crater Tycho on the moon is named after him, scientific method of investigation.
and the crater Tycho Brahe on Mars.
F. Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
D. Johannes Kepler (1571 - 1630)

● Famous Italian Astronomer who demonstrated

• Publications: that a projectile follows a parabolic path.
o Cosmographic Mystery - presented a ● Inventions and Discoveries:
stridently Copernican world view.

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BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY
LECTURER: MRS. NICEY TUBERA

○ Telescope (spyglass) - a convex objective

I. Isaac Newton (1643 - 1727)
lens and a concave eyepiece in 1608
○ Constructed his first telescope and turned it
toward the heavens and was able to
discover and argue that there are
innumerable stars invisible to the naked
eye in 1609.
○ Mountains on the Moon and four moons
circling Jupiter.
○ Phase of Venus - in 1610
○ Sunspots
○ Saturn appeared to have handles
● Built upon the work of Kepler and Galileo
showed that an inverse square law for
G. Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
gravity explained the elliptical orbits of the
planets, advanced the law of universal
gravitation, theorized his axiomatic three laws
of motion.

J. Alexandre Koyre (20th Century)

• Published his Discourse on the Method in

1637, which helped to establish the scientific
method.

H. Antoine Van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723)

● Introduced the term “Scientific Revolution”

centering his analysis on Galileo, and the term
was popularized by Butterfield in his Origins
of Modern Science.

● Constructed a powerful single lens of

microscopes and made extensive observations
that he published around 1660, opening up the
micro-world of biology.

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BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY
LECTURER: MRS. NICEY TUBERA

K. John Locke M. Hans Lippershey, Zacharias Janssen &

Jacob Metius

● recognized founder of Empiricism and

proposed in An Essay Concerning Human ● Spectacle makers of Alkmaarall who
Understanding (1689) contributed to the invention of refracting
● Argued that the human mind was created as a telescopes which first appeared in the
tabula rasa, a “blank tablet” Netherlands 1608.

L. Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691) N. Evangelista Torricelli (1607 - 1647)

● English chemists are considered to have ● Best known for his invention of the Mercury
refined the modern scientific method for alchemy Barometer.
and to have separated chemistry further from
alchemy.
● Regarded today as the first modern chemist
best known for Boyle’s Law - presented in
1662
● Built an Air Pump