SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY
Name: Micaella Jean A. Peñaranda
Course, Year, and Section: BSBAHRMOUMN 1-A
Activity name and number: Activity 2 - Module 1B & 2A
Module 1B: Historical antecedents in which social considerations changed the course of
science and technology (world)
Complete a table like the one below by writing examples for each part of the timeline. (14
points)
Point in history
Belief/idea that did not persist to
present-time
Belief/idea that persisted to present-
time
Ancient Times to 600
B.C.
- Egyptian doctors discovered
that an open wound would heal
rapidly and cleanly if it was
covered with moldy bread.
- According to modern science,
the chemical penicillin, which
kills bacteria that infect
wounds, is produced by
specific bread molds.
Greek Science
(600 B.C. to 500 A.D.)
- Anaximander believe that all
life originated in the sea, and at
one point, humans were
actually some sort of fish.
- This idea was revived by other
scientists, most notably
Charles Darwin, and is now
known as evolution.
“Dark Ages”
(500 A.D. to 1000
A.D.)
- Chinese archives from the year
1054. include in-depth
investigations of a
phenomenon in the sky that
Chinese astronomers have
dubbed a "guest star".
- Modern scientists were familiar
with the stars and were aware
that some of them created
patterns known as
constellations.
“Golden Age” of
Science (1500 A.D. to
1660 A.D.)
- Blaise Pascal demonstrated
that the air we breathe gives
pressure on everything
- Nicolaus Copernicus believed
that the sun was at the center
of everything and assumed
that the planets traveled
around the sun which is
referred to as a heliocentric
system. Now, it is called the
Copernican system, in honor of
Copernicus.
