Science and Technology and Society
an interdisciplinary course designed to examine the ways that science and technology
shape, and are shaped by, our society, politics, and culture.
Science
is an evolving body of knowledge that is based on theoretical expositions
and experimental and...
STS Questions and Answers 2024/2025
Science and Technology and Society
an interdisciplinary course designed to examine the ways that science and technology
shape, and are shaped by, our society, politics, and culture.
Science
is an evolving body of knowledge that is based on theoretical expositions
and experimental and empirical activities that generates universal truths.
society
is the sum total of our interactions as humans, including the interactions
that we engage in to understand the nature of things and to create things.
Four Great Inventions
compass, gunpowder, papermaking and printing.
Technology
is the application of
science and creation of systems,
processes and objects designed to help
humans in their daily activities.
Ancient times to 600 BC
Science during ancient times involved practical arts like healing practices and
metal tradition.
Around the time that papyrus was first being used in Egypt, the Mesopotamians
were making pottery using the first known potter's wheel. Not long after, horse-
drawn chariots were being used.
Ancient times to 600 BC
As early as 1,000 years before Christ, the Chinese were using compasses to aid
themselves in their travels.
The Advent of Science (600BC - 500AD)
The ancient Greeks were the early thinkers and as far as historians can tell,
they were the first true scientists. They collected facts and observations and
then used those observations to explain the natural world.
The Advent of Science (600BC - 500AD)
Scientific thought in Classical Antiquity becomes tangible from the 6th century
BC in pre-Socratic philosophy (Thales, Pythagoras). In circa 385 BC, Plato
founded the Academy. With Plato's student Aristotle begins the "scientific
revolution" of the Hellenistic period culminating in the 3rd to 2nd centuries
with scholars such as Eratosthenes, Euclid, Aristarchus of Samos, Hipparchus
and Archimedes.
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