Answer to Question #301726 in Political Science for Resia

Question

Review the history of science and make a timeline highlighting the major discoveries and developments in science.

1. To represent the discoveries and development, use photos.

2. For your timeline, choose 5 or more discoveries and developments.

3. Every discovery and development should be explained.

Answer 1

The inquisitive nature of mankind always gives the hunger to know why things are the way they are and also trying to predict the future using the current observation. Development of science has been happening since ancient time up to now in natural, social and formal aspects. This paper discusses the major discoveries and development in science with their respective timelines.

 

Disease and healing-1600BCE

 

Egyptians introduced the “Ebers Papyrus”, It had medical recipes for treating diseases that affected the eyes, swollen glands, mouth, internal organs, tumors, headache and bad breath. Edwin Smith Papyrus also wrote a manual for surgical operations such as dislocations, wounds and fractures.

 

 

Figure 1:The Ebers papyrus

 

Greek Mathematics (c.100 CE)

 

Euclid laid down the foundation of mathematical rigour and introduced definition concept, axiom, theorems and proofs.

 

 

Figure 2:one of the oldest fragments of Euclid's Elements

 

Electricity and magnestism-1801

 

Electrical behavior and magnetism was dug into by Giovanni Aldini, Alessandro Volta, Geot Ohm and Michael Faraday.The studies magnified leading to a single electromagnetism theory as described by the Maxwell’s equations.

 

Figure 3:Alessandro Volta demonstrates the first electrical cell to Napoleon

Evolution and inheritance-1837

 

Charles Darwin came up with the evolution theory in the book The Origin of Species where he said that the features of all living things were shaped by natural processes which spanned over a long time.

 

 

 

Figure 4:First evolutionary tree in Darwin’s "B" notebook

 

Number Theory and discrete mathematics-2100BC

 

Babylon and Egypt were the stages where the very first Pythagorean triples are discussed and later put on manuscripts.

 

 

Figure 5:Berlin Papyrus 6619,as reproduced in 1900 by Schack Schackenburg

 

                                                         Space Exploration-1968                                     

 

Astronaut William Anders took an image of the earth from above the moon according to NASA imagery. The image was core in explaining the finiteness of the earth and the limits of the natural resources contained in it.

 

Figure 6: Earth from above the moon, Apollo 8.