STS MIDTERMS

SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION

It is the period of enlightenment when the developments in the fields of mathematics, physics etc., transfromed the views about nature

NICOLAS COPERNICUS

His idea and model of the universe placed the sun to be the centerpiece of the universe

He outlined two kinds of planetray motion

CHARLES DARWIN

Famous for his THEORY OF EVOLUTION

THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES (1589)

SIGMUND FREUD

-Field of psychology

-Psychoanalysis

MAYA CIVILIZATION

-Lasted for 2000 years

-Predicting eclipse

-Two complicated calendar systems

-Gliterry paints (mica)

-Skilled in mathematics

INCA CIVILIZATION

-Roads paved with stones

-Stone buildings, irigation systems

-12 months calendar

-1st suspension bridge (quipu)

AZTEC CIVILIZATION

-Mandatory education

-Chocolates

-Antipasmodic medication

-Chinampa (surrounded by canals)

-Canoes

INDIA

Their iron steel is considered to be the best and held high regards in the whole of human empire

AYURVEDA

A system of traditional medicine that originated in ancient india

SUSRUTA SAMHITA

Different surgical and other medical procedures famous in ancient india

CHINA

-Discovered various medical properties and uses of different plants/animals to cure human illness

-Famous discoveries; gun powder, compass, paper, printing

THE MIDDLE EAST COUNTRIES

-Spread of islam

-Values science experiments rather than plain-thought experiments

AFRICA

-Blessed with natural and mineral resources

-Emerged in this part of the planet long before the europeans colonized them

-Mathematics was also known to be prominent

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN

-They are good in four fundamental mathematical operations

-Rules of geometry were developed

JOSEPH NEEDHAM

Science and civilization in china

LUDWICK FLECK

-Thought collectives

-Theory of thought style

-“Denkkollektiv and Denkstil”

THOMAS SAMUEL KUHN

-The structure of scientific revolution

-Paradigm shift

NULLIUS IN VERBA

A latin phrase meaning “take nobody’s word for it”——not accept something as true based solely on someone’s say so

INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM

-Predicting weather conditions

-Herbal medicines

-Preserving foods

INDIGENOUS SCIENCE

Practiced by different groups and early civilizations

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY

-The study of social, political, economic and cultural aspects of science and technology

-Is an interdisciplinary field

-Study about interaction and influence

PRE-SPANISH PHILIPPINES

-Indigenous knowledge system

-gold and silver jewelry

-planting, hunting, and cooking

-Musical instruments

SPANISH ERA

-Established schools for boys and girls

-beginning of formal science and technology

-Colleges/universities are establised by the catholic orders

AMERICAN ERA

-Public school education system and improved engineering

-Established UP

-More public hospitals

Philippine Science High School System

(PSHSS)

A government program for gifted students

in the Philippines

Special Science Elementary Schools (SSES)

Project

-elementary schools that

participated or were identified as science

elementary schools in the country.

Manila Science High School

It is the first science high school in the Philippines.

Central Visayan Institute Foundation

It is the home and pioneer of the prominent

school-based innovation known as the Dynamic

Learning Program (DLP)

CHINAMPA

It is a form of aztec technology for agricultural farming in which the land was divided into rectangular areas and surrounded by canals

AZTEC CALENDAR

This enabled them to plan their activities, rituals, and planting season

MOJENJORADO RULER

Tried to standardize measurement of length to a high degree of accuracy and designed ruler

ARYABHATA

He introduced a number of trigonometric functions, tables, and techniques, as well as algorithms of algebra.

THE LEBOMBO BONE

-Mathemetical tool, multiplication, division, and simple mathematical calculation