SCIENCE , TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY

THE AGE OF MICRO-BEINGS

Micro-organism or microbe - a creature that is
too small to be seen with the naked eye
Bacteria- one of the smallest microbes could fit
over one million times on the point of a needle.

QUESTION:
When was the year when the growth of new
technological developments that drove
scientists to study subjects in their smallest
state and become obsessed with anything
minute was shown?

ANSWER: 1600
Q : What was produced by the Dutch
makers of eyeglass ?

A : VERY FIRST MICROSCOPES

Q: Who revealed for the very first time to

the scientific community, his findings on
the complex structure of small insects,
such as fleas and bugs?

A: ROBERT HOOKE
Q: Who was the store owner of fabric who
started making his own microscope and was able
to find small life forms in places where scientists
had not thought of conducting their research
before , such as water?
- discovered the life forms with the single cells,
like bacteria
- Father of Microbiology
A: ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK

Q: Who was another Dutchman , by using a

microscope showed that the diff. stages in the
development of insect were not separate animals?
A: JAN SWAMMERDAM
Q: Who was an Englishman biologist
who made the great collection of plants
species?

A: JOHN RAY
 THE DAWN OF MATHEMATICAL
ANALYSIS
Q: The new discoveries were quite important as
they laid a stable foundation and basis for the
rise of modern scientific disciplines. What were
these four disciplines?

A: ASTRONOMY, CHEMISTRY, PHYSICS &

BIOLOGY

Q: What was the magnificent treatise of Isaac

Newton?
A: PHILOSOPHIAE NATURALIS PRINCIPIA
MATHEMATICAL
Q: Who was The English physicist and
mathematician who was for his law of
gravitation, was instrumental in the scientific
revolution of the 17th century and developed
laws of motion?

A:  ISAAC NEWTON

Q: Who was GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ?

A: HE WAS A GERMAN PHILOSOPHER,

MATHEMATICIAN, AND LOGICIAN WHO
INVENTED THE DIFFERENTIAL AND INTEGRAL
CALCULUS
Q: Who was The English physicist and
mathematician who was for his law of
gravitation, was instrumental in the scientific
revolution of the 17th century and developed
laws of motion?

A:  ISAAC NEWTON

Q: Who was Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz?

A: HE WAS A GERMAN PHILOSOPHER,

MATHEMATICIAN, AND LOGICIAN WHO
INVENTED THE DIFFERENTIAL AND INTEGRAL
CALCULUS
 THE EXPANSION OF SCIENTIFIC HORIZONS
(1700 - 1800)
MORE DISCOVERIES
Q: Who was the Englishman who was able to
discover root pressure (rising of sap within
plants) and invented a trough for collecting
gases.

A:  STEPHEN HALES

Q: Who was a Swiss mathematician, who was

primarily responsible for the Bernoulli principle?

A: DANIEL BERNOULLI
Q: What is Bernoulli principle?
A:  The pressure of the fluid falls when it is
moving.
This principle allowed the Swiss wizard to
keep tabs on blood pressure.
- utilized in the principles governing the
flying of an aircraft
Q: Who was a Scottish Chemist who was able
to produce an amazing doctoral thesis about
the calcium carbonate degeneration and the
exraction of carbon dioxide?
A: JOSEPH BLACK
Q : Who made an important contribution to
the field by illustrating that water was
made of two parts of hydrogen to one of
oxygen?

A:  HENRY CAVENDISH

Q: Who was a Dutchman who demonstrated

how green plants emitted oxygen under the
sun and carbon dioxide in the dark?

A: JAN INGENHOUSZ
Q : Who explained that many elements
including carbon and phosphorus, could
burn by combining with oxygen to form
what is now termed as oxides?

A:  ANTOINE LAVOISER

Q: Who was a French chemist in late 18th

century who made another discovery by
figuring out that chemical elements , most of
the time, merged in exact shares?

A: JOSEPH PROUST
 THE FIELD OF EARTH SCIENCES

Q: Who was able to show how big-scale

ocean currents flowed at the bottom of the
sea with his inquiries of the Gulf Stream?

A:  BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Q: Who was an English amateur meteorologist,

who expounded in a paper the impact of the
trade winds in relation to the rotation of the
globe?

A: GEORGE HADLEY
Q : Who took advantage of Newton’s idea,
by taking measurements of the
gravitational pull of mountain in Scotland,
and in the process was able to find out
that the density of the earth?

A:  NEVIL MASKELYNE

Q: Who became engrossed in geology and soon

made the conclusion that the earth was a little
bit older than anyone had previously believed?

A: JAMES HUTTON