Topic 1: Historical Antecedents in the Course • Elaborate churches, basilicas, aqueducts, Topic 2: Intellectual Revolution

of Science and Technology coliseums, amphitheaters, and residential

The Man who moved the Sun
houses
Science and Technology in Ancient Times
• Roman Numeral System – their own Claudius Ptolemy
Sumerians
number system • Geo-centrism - planets as well as the sun
• Cuneiform – first writing system and the moon, moved in a circular motion
China
• Plowing, irrigation and dikes and wheel for
• Silk trade around the Earth
farming
• Tea production Nicolaus Copernicus
• Road • Heliocentrism – sun is at the center of the
• Gun Powder
Babylonian
• Great Wall of China solar system
- Great builders, engineers, and architects Charles Darwin
• Hanging garden of Babylon – one of the Science and Technology in Middle Ages
• Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection - :
seven wonders of the world Inventions:
individual organisms within a particular
Egyptians • Printing Press – Johann Gutenberg species show a wide range of variation for a
• Death Mask of Tutankhamen • Microscope – Zacharias Janssen characteristic, individuals with
• Pyramid of Giza • Telescope characteristics most suited to the
• Water clock or clypsedra • Weaponry Technology (cross bows, long environment are more likely to survive to
• Paper or papyrus bows, iron body armors, chainmail) breed successfully; and the characteristics
• Ink Science and Technology in Modern Times that have enabled these individuals to
• Hieroglyphics – system of writing Inventions: survive are then passed on to the next
• Cosmetics • Industries generation
• Wigs • Pasteurization – Louis Pasteur – the The Father of Psychoanalysis
Greeks process of heating dairy products to kill the
• In-depth works on Philosophy and harmful bacteria that allow them to spoil Sigmund Freud
Mathematics faster • Psychoanalysis – the study of human
• Coliseum • Molecular asymmetry, fermentation, behavior
• Olympics vaccination – Louis Pasteur - There are many conscious and unconscious
• Alarm clock factors that can influence behavior and
• Kerosene and Petroleum refinery industry
• Water mill emotions. He also argued that personality is
• Telephone – Alexander Graham Bell
Roman Empire a product of three conflicting elements: id,
• Calculator
- Cradle of politics and governance ego and superego.
• Computers
• Newspaper
• Bound books or codex

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 Topic 3: Science and Technology and Nation
Building
Filipino Presidents and their Contributions in the
Development of Science and Technology in the
Philippines
Pres. Carlos P. Garcia (1957 - 1961)
- lack of support of experimental work
- marginal budget for scientific research
- low salaries of scientists employed by the
government
- established the National Science
Development Board
Pres. Ferdinand Marcos (1965 - 1986)
- directed the Department of Education to
revitalize the science courses in public high
schools
- channeled additional funds to support
projects in applied sciences and science
education
- he proclaimed 35 hectares in Bicutan,
Taguig, Rizal as the site of the Philippine
Science Community
- scholarships for graduate and
undergraduate science scholars, and
workshops on fisheries and oceanography
- added the Philippine Coconut Research
Institute to the NSDB to modernize the
coconut industry.
- support for the promotion of scientific
research and invention with Presidential
Decree No. 49, s. 1972
- he enacted a law under Presidential Decree
No. 1003-A, s. 1976 to establish the
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National Academy of Science and
Technology
- He enacted a law on the completion of the
National Agriculture and Life Sciences
Research Complex at the University of the
Philippines at Los Baños (Executive Order
No. 840, s. 1982)
- he established the Mindanao and Visayas
Pres. Fidel V. Ramos (1992 - 1998)
campuses of the Philippine Science High
School to encourage careers in science and
technology
- established other research institutes like
PAGASA, National Grains Authority,
Philippine Council for Agricultural Research,
Philippine National Oil Company among
others
Pres. Corazon Aquino (1986 - 1992)
- National Science and Technology Authority
was replaced by the Department of Science
and Technology
- science and technology's role in economic
recovery and sustained economic growth
was highlighted
- created the Presidential Task Force for
Science and Technology which came up
with the first Science and Technology
Master Plan or STMP
- Executive Order No.128 abolished R.A. No.
3859, also known as the “Philippine
Inventors Incentive Act.”
- gave assistance to Filipino inventors
through giving financial aid, patent
application assistance, legal assistance, and
to help inventors market their products
domestically and abroad
- R.A. 6655 or the Free Public Secondary
Education Act of 1988 opened doors to free
education up to the secondary level
- “Science for the Masses Program” which
aimed at scientific and technological
literacy among Filipinos
- significant increase in personnel
specializing in the science and technology
field
- addition of Philippine Science High Schools
in Visayas and Mindanao
- government provided 3,500 scholarships
for students who were taking up
professions related to S&T
- Schools were becoming more modernized
and updated with the addition of high-tech
equipment for student
- Priority for S&T personnel increased when
Magna Carta for Science and Technology
Personnel (Republic Act No. 8439) was
established
- award was published in order to give
incentives and rewards for people who
have been influential in the field of S&T
(Inventors and Inventions Incentives Act or
Republic Act No. 7459)
- programs such as National Program for
Gifted Filipino Children in Science and
Technology
- enactment of a law creating a nationwide
system of high schools specializing in the
field of science and engineering (Science
and Technology Scholarship Law of 1994)
- enacted the Intellectual Property Code of
the Philippines (Republic Act No. 8293)
 Pres. Joseph Estrada (1998 - 2001)
- launched a full-scale program based on
cost-effective irrigation technologies
- establishment of one science high school in
every province
- advancement of industries and schools into
the Internet age,
- passage of the e-Commerce Act
Pres. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (2001 - 2010)
- the science and technology sector of the
Philippines was dubbed as the "golden age”
during her term
- Numerous laws and projects that concerns
both the environment and science to push
technology as a tool to increase the
country's economic level
- the term "Filipinnovation" was the coined
term used in helping the Philippines to be
an innovation hub in Asia
- Science Technology and Innovations (STI)
was developed further by strengthening
the schools and education system such as
the Philippine Science High School (PSHS),
which focuses in science, technology and
mathematics in their curriculum
- imposes Republic Act 10601 which
improves the Agriculture and Fisheries
Sector through Mechanization (AFMech)
Filipino Scientists and their Inventions
Dr. Arturo Alcaraz
- electric light bulb (1967)
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Julian Banzon Topic 4: The Human Person Flourishing
- methods of producing alternative fuels in terms of Science and Technology
- production of ethyl fuels from sugarcane Scientific Method
and coconut - a logical and systematic way of solving a
Pedro Escuro problem
- Isolation of nine rice varieties: Milpal 4, Steps:
HBD-2, Azmil 26 and C-22 and C-18, C4-63, 1. Making Observation and Stating the Problem
C4-137, C-168 and C-12 2. Formulating the Hypothesis
3. Testing the Hypothesis with experiment
- Developed rice breeding in the PH
Dr. Francisco Fronda 4. Stating the Conclusion
- Father of Poultry Science in the PH
- Improved methods of production for the Topic 6: Good Life
poultry and livestock industry
Materialism
Felix Maramba
- People who are clinging on to material
- Coconut oil-fueled power generator
wealth as the primary source of meaning of
- Developer of one of the world's most
their existence
profitable biogas systems
Hedonism
Luz Oliveros Belardo
- See the end goal of life in acquiring
- Phytochemical properties of plants in the
pleasure
Philippines for natural products, essential
Stoicism
oils, and the medicinal qualities
- To generate happiness, one must learn to
Emerita De Guzman
distance oneself and be apathetic.
- Propagation of pure macapuno trees
Theism
- Tissue culture techniques for the rapid
- People find the meaning of their lives using
propagation of abaca and banana plants
God as the fulcrum of their existence
Dr. Fe Del Mundo
Humanism
- Improved incubator and a jaundice
- Man is literally the captain of his own ship.
relieving device
Gregorio Zara
- the two-way television telephone or
videophone (1955)
- the physical law of electrical kinetic
resistance called the Zara effect (around
1930)
- an airplane engine that ran on plain alcohol
as fuel (1952)