“General concepts and STS Historical Developments”

“General concepts and STS Historical Developments”

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OBJECTIVES

​1. Discuss the interactions between S&T and society throughout history

2. Discuss how scientific and technological developments affect society and the environment

3. Identify the paradigm shifts in history.

4. Articulate ways by which society is transformed by science and technology

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SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION

​The Scientific Revolution was a series of events that marked the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology (including human anatomy) and chemistry transformed the views of society about nature.

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Some Scientist and their Innovative Ideas

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​Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)

​Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a heliocentric model of the universe which placed the Sun, rather than the Earth, at the center. He is generally considered to be the initiator of the Scientific Revolution. The first guy to prove that the earth was not stationary in space and revolved around the sun. It was a member of the church and waited until the year of his death to publish his findings, which started the so-called Copernican Revolution.

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​Charles Darwin is often cited as the greatest biologist in history. His most famous work, On the Origin of Species, explains the theory of evolution by natural selection, providing numerous supporting examples. Darwin believed that all of life on earth had descended from a common ancestor, whose offspring could vary slightly from the previous generation. Successive generations of life took part in a struggle for existence in which the best adapted variations survived to seed new generations. Less well adapted variations became extinct

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