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INTRODUCTION
PHILOSOPHICAL
APPROACH
Science, Technology
DEVELOPMENT
and Society or STS
SCIENTIFIC
ANCIENT AGES
a study that deals with the
relationships and effects of social
MIDDLE AGES
interactions, political views and
culture expressions in making
scientific research technological
advancements and innovations.
INDUSTRIAL
AGES
REVOLUTION
SCIENTIFIC
PHILOSOPHICAL
APPROACH
ARISTOTLE
PHILOSOPHY
DEVELOPMENT
SCIENTIFIC
ANCIENT AGES
• He served as a
came from the Greek word philosopher who
"philosophia"which means "love tried to explain
of wisdom" the natural • He classify
phenomena living things
MIDDLE AGES
around him and non living
things
• He also used
It serves as the foundation inductive and
of it during ancient period deductive method in
INDUSTRIAL
explaining scientific
AGES
as it provides information
of scientific pursuit. inquiries
REVOLUTION
SCIENTIFIC
PHILOSOPHICAL
APPROACH
DEVELOPMENT
SCIENTIFIC
• Identification of the problem
through observations
SCIENTIFIC
ANCIENT AGES
• Formulate hypotheses
• Gather information or data
collection
DEVELOPMENT
MIDDLE AGES
• Testing the hypotheses
through experimentation
• Analyze the results
INDUSTRIAL
~ construct the
AGES
• Report the conclusions
social dimension
of the society
REVOLUTION
SCIENTIFIC
PHILOSOPHICAL
APPROACH
MIDDLE AGES
System
INDUSTRIAL
AGES
REVOLUTION
SCIENTIFIC
PHILOSOPHICAL
APPROACH
DEVELOPMENT
SCIENTIFIC
ANCIENT AGES
NUMBER SYSTEM
BASED ON 20
NUMERALS
0 shell shape
MIDDLE AGES
1 a dab
5 a bar
This sacred site was one of the
INDUSTRIAL
greatest Mayan centres of the
AGES
Yucatán peninsula.
In 36 B.C they
conceptualize "0" in the
REVOLUTION
SCIENTIFIC
numbering system
ANCIENT AGES SCIENTIFIC PHILOSOPHICAL
DEVELOPMENT APPROACH
HAAB
LONG COUNT
REVOLUTION AGES
MIDDLE AGES
SCIENTIFIC INDUSTRIAL
PHILOSOPHICAL
APPROACH
TZOLK'IN
DEVELOPMENT
SCIENTIFIC
It is when Tzolk'in
and Haab are both
given in specific date
ANCIENT AGES
MIDDLE AGES
CALENDAR
INDUSTRIAL
ROUND
AGES
REVOLUTION
SCIENTIFIC
They have counting
scheme called
"sexagesimal system"
(fraction based on
sixtieths)
~ considered as one
of the great cities They adapt
during 2000 B.C "cuneiform" as
their form of
writing
They discovered various
medicinal properties and
uses of different plants and
animals to cure illness.
Other inventions:
Abacus
Shadow clock
would drop one of the eight
balls to signal when and in
Seismoscope which direction an
earthquake would occur
CIVILIZA
EK TI THALES OF MILETUS
E
O
GR
N
who studied Geometry
and developed the
"Thale's Theorem" in
describing circles, arcs,
angles and triangles
PYTHAGORAS
HIPPOCRATES
wrote several books
on geometry called
the well known "
"Elements", which
became a classic "Hippocratic Oath " in
book for 2000 years the medical world is
and recognized of a proposed by him to
successful textbook in
history
uphold the medical
ethics in practicing
medicine
EUCLID
T CIVILIZAT
YP ION
EG
In terms of inventions, Greeks loved to observe
and study the natural flow of the world in which
they applied it in some of their practical
innovations.
Most people still believe that the Middle Ages was a time
filled with violence, superstition, and stagnation. Indeed,
Greek rationality and mathematics’ triumphs allegedly
“Poppy seeds”, which had been snuffed out by Christians during the 4th
contain both morphine Century and when the Roman Empire rejected
and codeine, considered paganism.
excellent pain-
It was a surprise to find that historians in the Middle ages,
relieving drugs and the influence of Christianity, have dramatically
revised their understanding of science. It turns out that
science was invented during the eighteenth century
with the idea of Christianity held back. Despite concerted
“Chariot” is a carriage efforts by academics to kill it off, it still refuses to die.
driven by a charioteer,
usually pulled by
horses to provide rapid
and robust
movement.
Here are some of the notable figures in
scientific development during Middle Ages; INDUSTRIAL
AGES
The history of the modern scientific method and the
experiment is rooted in the ancient empirical approach of
Nature through reasoning.
Doubt
is the father of invention
NICOLAUS
COPERNICUS
KEPLER’S LAW OF
PLANETARY
THE LAW OF HARMONY
MOTION
THE LAW OF ELLIPSES The time required for a planet to orbit the
Sun, called its period, is proportional to
long axis of the ellipse raised to the 3/2
All planets move in elliptical orbits with
power.The constant of proportionality is
sun at one focus
the same for all the planets.
DARWINIAN BASIC TENETS OF EVOLUTION
LAW OF INERTIA
Freud believed that
children are born with a libido – a states that a body at rest tends to
sexual (pleasure) urge. stay at rest; a body in motion tends to
stay in motion unless compelled to
change by an applied force.e.
LAW OF ACCELERATION
states that the change in motion
is proportional to the applied
force and takes place in the
straight line by which that force
is applied.
LAW OF INTERACTION
states that for every action
there is an equal and opposite
reaction.