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: Warm Up December 7, 2012: Is it possible that a regular size ball, say a tennis ball could be thrown at a wall and pass right through the solid material of the wall without making a hole? Justify your answer in the warm up. Next take out Your cell phones and text yes or no to: #37607 Yes Vote No Vote 634074 634076
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Please complete the following: 1.Sit in a group of your choosing. 2. Next, independently read the article and annotate looking for the following: A. What ideas/morals/cannon law does this advancement challenge? B. Predict the benefits of the advancement. How will society be positively effected by this kind of science? C. Predict the downfalls of the advancement. Who will be the most threatened by the advancement? What negative side effects will occur with the science? Why would people fear this advancement? D. Do you agree or disagree with the scientific advancement in your article?
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“Earth was a special place on which the great drama of life took place.”
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Stem Cell Research + / - Time Travel + / - Teleportation + / - Genetic Engineering + / - How do you feel about? Cloning + / -
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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On his deathbed, Copernicus published his book: “On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies.”
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Kepler 1601
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Elliptical Orbit by Hermes Comet
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Galileo Galilei (1565 - 1642)
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“I do not feel obligated to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” -Galileo Galilei
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Discovered the swing of the..…..
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Constructed the telescope
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-law of the pendulum -objects fall at the same speed -created the first telescope to study the heavens -defended Copernicus
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“With sincere heart and unpretended faith I abjure, curse, and detest the foresaid errors and heresies [of Copernicus] and also every other error….contrary to the Catholic Church, and I sware that in the future I will never say or assert….anything that might cause a similar suspicion toward me.” -Galileo Galilei during trial
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In 1642, Galileo died while under house arrest….
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Francis Bacon (Early 1600’s)
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Scientific Method: Observe/Question Define the Problem Research Hypothesis Experiment Data Conclusion
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Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
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“Cogitoergo sum” “I think, therefore I am.”
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“Each problem that I solved because a rule which I served afterwards to solve the problem”
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Sir Isaac Newton (Mid 1600’s)
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universal law of gravitation
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“If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.” -Sir Isaac Newton
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Scientific Technologies
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Zachzrias Janssen (1509)
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1670’s)
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Evangelista Torricelli (1643)
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Medicine
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Galen (Middle Ages)
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The Pig’s anatomy Is it really like ours?
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They tried to find out.
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But really what does a pig and a human have in common?
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Andrea Vesalius (1543)
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Edward Jenner (1700’s)
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Woman Scientists: Margaret Cavendish – Nature is in control Maria Winkelmann – discovery of a comet
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