Laxamana, Dhenson F

Assignment #3

Why is it important to study the history of science and technology?

For me it is important to studying the history of science and technology, why because studying
the history of science allows you to have a glimpse into both world history and how we discovered
everything we know about the world. Those moments of discovery may seem anticlimactic to us
now, but imagine not having discovered them at all. Imagine living without that knowledge.
Learn what the world was like before we had our current understanding. People used to think the
world was flat, and that the stars and the sun revolved around the Earth, and that earthquakes
were messages from the gods. Each bit of our current understanding of science came gradually,
through observation, measurement, and experimentation. Learning how that understanding came
to be helps us, also learn about our cultural history. As we learn how other people made new
discoveries, we learn new ways of thinking that might allow us to make our own new
discoveries. Thru science we improve all the tools and inventories made by the pass.