SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY

AND SOCIETY
INTELLECTUAL REVOLUTIONS THAT
DEFINED SOCIETY **

• Development of science and scientific ideas in

the heart of the society. **
• Society is transformed by science and
technology.
Scientific Revolution **
• Science is as old as the world itself.
• There is no individual that can exactly identify
when and where science began.
• From the genesis of time, science has existed.
It is always interwoven with the society. **
Science defined as:
1. Science as an idea
• Ideas, theories, and all available systematic
explanations and observations about the natural
and physical world. **

2. Science as an intellectual activity

• Systematic and practical study of the natural and
physical world.
3. Science as body of knowledge
• Process of learning about the natural and
physical world.
• “School science”

4. Science as a personal and social activity

• Better understanding of the world around us.
• Human beings embarked in scientific activities, studied
natural and physical world, developed ideas leading for
philosophy, and used religion to rationalize the origins of
life and lifeless form. **

• Early 16th century up to 18th century in Europe

• Printing machine, intellectual activities, and growing
number of scholars.
• All great civilizations of the ancient world had their own
sophisticated traditions and activities (in history of
science).
• Scientific Revolution was the period of enlightenment
when the developments in the fields of mathematics,
physics, astronomy, biology, and chemistry transformed the
views of society about nature (birth of modern science).

• Reflect, rethink, and reexamine their beliefs and way of life

(ideas generated). **

• Golden age / painful death or condemnation from the

religious institutions.
 SCIENCE IDEAS

SR

HUMANS SOCIETY

Fig 1. Influences to Scientific Revolution

Some Intellectuals and their Revolutionary
Ideas

Creativity
SCIENTISTS SCIENCE
IDEAS

Passion to
Curiosity SCIENCE
Know DISCOVERIES

Passion to TECHNOLOGY
Critical discover
Thinking
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