GEC08-WK1-Historical Antecedents in which Social Considerations Changed.pptx

GEC08-WK1-Historical Antecedents in which Social Considerations Changed.pptx

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  Historical Antecedents in whichSocial Considerations Changed the Course of Science and Technology Aaron A. Zuela
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  Overview: Since the beginningof time, science and technology has existed. Science and technology are interrelated. It affects people’s lives and provides great influence in the society, especially in ways of thinking and doing things. The contributions of scientists and other intellectuals who provided revolutionary ideas and dominant theories, the discoveries, inventions, evidences and truths of their time were very useful in our world today. Scientists are ordinary people doing extraordinary things, some were sentenced to death, others were condemned by the Church, some were never appreciated during their times but despite of all predicaments and challenges they experienced they never stopped experimenting, discovering new ideas and knowledge, they are driven by their deep passion to know and to discover. Scientific attitudes possess by the scientist makes individual in the society develop interest in Science and Technology, they become scientifically and technologically literate, cope with the demands of this world shaped by science and technology.
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  How do wedefine science, technology and society? The word "science", creates imaginary pictures like white lab coats and microscopes, a textbook, a naturalist in the tropical rainforest, Albert Einstein's equations scrawled on a chalkboard, an astronomer look closely through a telescope, the launch of the space shuttle, the bubbling beakers. All these pictures reflect some aspect of science, but science always interlinks with technology and society. Science has a broad definition.
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  Scientific Revolution Scientific revolutionrefers to the rebirth (renaissance) or new beginning of modern-day science, which encouraged curiosity, investigation, discovery, modern day knowledge and caused people to question old beliefs. During the era of Scientific Revolution, people began using experiments and mathematics to understand mysteries. New discoveries was made, some old beliefs began to be proven wrong. It should not be seen as a revolution in science but a revolution in thought and practice that brought about modern science. It happened when developments in various branches of studies, especially in biology, chemistry, physics, math, astrophysics, completely transformed the way of living.
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  Scientific Revolution tookplace during the 16th and 17th centuries. It started in Europe. It is a new view of physical world, nature emerged during the Scientific Revolution and transformation of concepts, methods, and institutional approaches to the natural world happened that are recognizable in modern science.
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  What is anexample of a scientific revolution? Thomas Kuhn is an American physicist and philosopher who presented his concept of a paradigm shift in his influential book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), according to Kuhn (1962), scientific revolution is a paradigm change also called a paradigm shift, is a fundamental change in the basic concepts and experimental practices of a scientific discipline.