SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY (STS)

Activity name and number: Activity 02: Historical antecedents in which social
considerations changed the course of science and
technology (world)

Activity 02: Historical antecedents in which social considerations changed the

course of science and technology (world)

Complete a table like the one below by writing examples for each part of the timeline.
(14 points)

Belief/idea that did not Belief/idea that persisted

Point in history
persist to present-time to present-time
The Chinese were using Nowadays, we often use
Ancient Times to 600 B.C. Compasses to aid the google maps and waze
themselves in their travels in our travels
Anaximander believed that
all life began in the sea
Greek Science We called it as
and at one time humans
(600 B.C. to 500 A.D.) EVOLUTION
were actually some sort of
fish
 Medicine became steeped Conventional
in superstition. Ideas about modern medicine. It
the origin and cure of involves the use of drugs
disease were based on or surgery, often supported
factors such as destiny, by counseling and lifestyle
sin, and heavenly measures. Alternative and
“Dark Ages”
influences. Therefore, in complementary types
(500 A.D. to 1000 A.D.)
this period, there was no of medicine include
tradition of scientific acupuncture, homeopathy,
medicine, and herbal medicine, art
observations went hand in therapy, traditional
hand with spiritual and Chinese medicine, and
religious influences. many more.
“Golden Age” of Science "Golden Age" denotes a You need to work hard, toil
(1500 A.D. to 1660 A.D.) period of primordial peace, if you can before you can
harmony, stability, and have a food to feed for
prosperity. During this age, your family.
peace and harmony
prevailed in that people did
 not have to work to feed
themselves for
the earth provided food in
abundance.
Statistics was first used in
1662 when John Graunt,
Jean-Baptiste Denys along with William Petty,
Era of Newton performed the first blood developed early human
(1660 A.D. to 1735 A.D.) transfusion from a lamb statistical and census
into a boy. methods that provided a
framework for modern
demography
Only few are made by
The production of almost
Industrial Revolution hand, most of the
anything was done mostly
(1735 A.D. to 1820 A.D.) production was done by
by hand.
machines
Healthcare has already
Health care was virtually
entered its next phase of
unregulated and health
rapid advancements. By
insurance, nonexistent.
using
Physicians practiced and
precision medicine technol
treated patients in their
Modern Science ogies, genetic
homes. The few hospitals
(1900 A.D. to the Present) vulnerabilities to chronic
that existed provided
and deadly diseases at the
minimal therapeutic care.
individual level can now be
Both physicians and
identified, potentially pre-
hospitals were
empting disease decades
unregulated.
later.