HIST 1250 Lecture : f13hist1250lect2slides.pdf
7 Oct 2014
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Technology : science : latin scientia = knowledge, technology : greek techne = manual skill. Babylonia flourished ~20th century bce: prediction was key three aspects of babylonian science and technology: They were skilled astronomers who looked at stars to find about the events on earth: ancient greece. Prior to 6th c bce: natural phenomena: personified and divinized. Natural occurrences such as earthquakes were looked as wrath of the gods by the greeks: natural philosophy or philosophy of nature. Natural philosophy is about studying about the natural world. Information o the natural world was not always practical: emergence of scientific . Bce: agora or marketplace, thales of miletus (c. 624-c. 548 bce, anaximander (c. 610-c. 545 bce, pythagoras (c. 582-c. 500 bce) Read the textbook: the pre-socratics , three questions: i. What is the ultimate nature of reality? ii. These were the questions asked by the philosophers: the ultimate nature of reality, fundamental stuff of which the universe is made, thales:
