No. 5 - The LEAP of Science and Technology during the Scientific Revolution.pdf, Lecture notes of Life Sciences

Download No. 5 - The LEAP of Science and Technology during the Scientific Revolution.pdf and more Lecture notes Life Sciences in PDF only on Docsity!

A Learning Course Material in

Science, Technology, and Society 01

Julius C. Pumaras

Assistant Professor III

Learning Outcomes : At the end of the lesson, the pre-service teachers (PST)

must have:

1. described the development of science and technology during the Scientific Revolution;
2. expounded the significance of technology invented during the Scientific Revolution; and
3. Discussed the works of the different proponents of the Scientific Revolution period. he scientific revolution was the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments ill mathematics, physics astronomy, biology and chemistry transformed the views of society and nature. The scientific revolution began in Europe towards the end of the Renaissance period and continued through the late 8th century, influencing the intellectual social movement known as the Enlightenment.
   1. Nicolaus Copernicus in 1543, De revolutionibus orbium coelestiurn is often cited as marking the beginning of the scientific revolution.
   2. William Gilbert (1544—1603) published books On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and the Great Magnet the Earth in 1600, which laid the foundations of a theory of magnetism and electricity. Gilbert provided a hyper-empirical study of magnets, magnetism, and electricity with speculations about cosmology.
   3. Tycho Brahe (1546—1601), a Danish nobleman. He is known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations. He was assisted by Johannes Kepler, where the latter used the information to develop his own Learning Course Material No. 5 Introduction T

8. Antoine van Leeuwenhoek (1632—1723) constructed powerful single lens microscopes and made extensive observations that he published around 1660, opening up the micro-world of biology.
9. Isaac Newton (1643—1727) built upon the work of Kepler and Galileo. He showed that an inverse square law for gravity explained the elliptical orbits of the planets, and advanced the law of universal gravitation; In his Principia, Newton theorized his axiomatic three laws of motion.
10. Alexandre Koyré, in the 20th century, introduced the term, "Scientific Revolution”, centering his analysis on Galileo, and the term was popularized by Butterfield in his Origins of Modern Science.
11. John Locke is recognized founder of empiricism and proposed in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689) that the only true knowledge that could be accessible to the human mind was that which was based on experience. He argued that the human mind was created as a tabula rasa, a “blank tablet’ upon which sensory impressions were recorded and built up knowledge through a process of reflection.
12. Robert Boyle (16 27 —1691) an English chemist considered to have refined the modern scientific method for alchemy and to have separated chemistry further from alchemy. Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry, and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method. Although Boyle was not an original discover, he is best known for Boyle’s Law, which he presented in 1662: the law describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of gas, if the temperature is kept constant within a closed system.