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1. Your Module starts out
asking the question, “What is science?”
According to Dr. Wile science is the branch of study dedicated to the
accumulation and classification of observable ________ in order to formulate
general laws about the natural world.
Science is the branch of study dedicated to the accumulation and
classification of observable facts in order to formulate general laws about the
natural world.
Science like any discipline has both a purpose and practice:
2. What is the purpose of
science?
The purpose of science is to develop what that explain how the
world around us works and why things happen?
The purpose of science is to develop general laws that explain how
the world around us works and why things happen.
3. The practice of science
involves what two things?
The practice of science involves experimentation and observation.
4. Studying the history of
science can teach us what about science?
It teaches us how science should and should not be practiced.
5. Who was Imhotep?
An Egyptian who lived around
2650 B.C. He was known for his knowledge of medical
knowledge.
Imhotep -- http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/egypt/history/people/imhotep.html
6. Can you name some things
that Imhotep might have used that are still being used today?
Penicillin, morphine, and codeine from poppy seeds are all
examples.
http://www.scienceclarified.com/images/uesc_01_img0045.jpg
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7. What type of paper did
the Egyptians use?
Papyrus – A primitive form of paper, made from a long-leaf plant.
http://emuseum.mnsu.edu/prehistory/egypt/dailylife/papyrus.html
8. Why was the invention of
paper so important?
It revolutionized the way information was transmitted from person
to person
8. Other than ancient
Mesopotamians were making pottery on a potter’s wheel
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/02/wam/ht02wam.htm
Sumerians developed horse-drawn chariots
Chinese were using compasses to aid their travels
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Model_Si_Nan_of_Han_Dynasty.jpg
9. Who do historians view as
humanity’s first real scientists?
Thales -- studied the heavens
Anaximander – origins of life without reference to a creator
Anaximenes – believed all things were
constructed from air
10. What did Leucippus
propose?
He proposed that all matter is comprised of little units called
atoms. He is known as the father of
atomic theory
11. Who thought that atoms
were like the sand of a breach?
Democritus -- http://www.thebigview.com/greeks/index.html
http://www.thebigview.com/greeks/democritus.html
12. What term do we use
today for how tightly-packed atoms are in a substance?
Density is a large density indicates tightly-packed atoms and a
small density indicates how loosely-packed they may be.
13. How many atoms are
contained on the head of pin?
100,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms……..and they are in constant
motion!!!
14. Who is often called the father of life
sciences?
Aristotle -- http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/aristotle.html
15. What large scale thing
regarding plants and animals did Aristotle do?
Classification
16. What do we call
Aristotle’s idea that living organisms can be spontaneously formed from
non-living substances?
Spontaneous generation
17. How did Aristotle’s
belief in spontaneous generation hurt the advancement of science?
The reputation of the author (Aristotle), not the scientific
evidence, was the reason people believed in the idea. It took 2000 years for Aristotle to be proven
wrong. It that time people believe
spontaneous generation to be true, even though there was evidence that is not
true simply because Aristotle said it was so.
18. Which scientist
discovered something while taking a bath?
Archimedes – https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/contents.html
19. What did Archimedes show
regarding mathematics and science?
How closely the two studies are linked. Mathematics often provides data which shows
scientific ideas to be correct or false.
Scientific observation often shows mathematic predictions to be correct
or in error.
20. Which scientist proposed
the geocentric system for our solar system?
Ptolemy -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy
21. What is at the center of
the solar system in the Ptolemaic system?
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The earth.
All the plants travel around the Earth in circles called epicycles in
according to Ptolemy.
22. Why did the church like
Ptolemy’s view of the solar system?
Since God created man, the earth must be the most important thing
in the universe, so it must be at the very center, just as Ptolemy had said.
23. How is evolution like
the geocentric system?
Evolution, like the Ptolemaic system, is popular not because of
there is a lot evidence for it, but because it fits in with many preconceived
notions and beliefs.
24. Why did science stall
during the days of the
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Roman_Colosseum.html
25. Who wanted to change
lead into gold?
Alchemists – like the Egyptians the alchemists never really tried
to understand how the natural world worked.
They were interested in making and finding “the next useful substance.”
http://www.alchemylab.com/history_of_alchemy.htm
26. According to Dr. Wile,
why did science not advance during the Dark Ages?
As
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages
27. In 1054, Chinese
scientist observed a star exploding.
What do we call an explosion of a star today?
A supernova.
The remains of an exploded star are called a nebula.
Crab Nebula : http://search.aol.com/aol/image?invocationType=imageTab&query=Crab+Nebula