STS – midterm Questions and Answers
2024/2025
The idea of intellectual revolution is claimed to have started in ______ after the
________________________________
Europe
Middle Ages in the early 16th -18th Century.
It was a period of __________by the developments in the fields of philosophy, mathematics,
astronomy, biology, physics, and chemistry which transformed the views of society about
natural phenomenon.
enlightenment
It was a period of enlightenment by the developments in the fields
___________________________________ which transformed the views of society about
natural phenomenon.
philosophy
mathematics
astronomy, biology
physics
chemistry
These developments resulted to the emergence of __________ which enabled people to
reflect, rethink, re-examine their beliefs, perceptions, and way of life.
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Modern Science
Intellectual revolution is believed to be the____________characterized by people dedicated
to pursue a scholarly life in science.
Golden Age
There are prominent scientists who are known of their revolutionary ideas, and they are as
follows:
1) Nicolaus Copernicus
2) Charles Darwin
3) Sigmund Freud.
, humans questioned what created day and night. They wanted to know and understand the
heavenly bodies, the creation of the stars, the moon, the sun, and the planets. Humans were
more intrigued about the cuter space. The invention of the telescope eventually allowed
people a glimpse of the heavenly bodies.
Ancient Times
a famous philosopher and an astronomer, the planets, the moon, and the sun moved in a
circular motion around the Earth
Claudius Ptolemy,
the Earth is the center- a concept known as
"geocentrism
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a Polish mathematician and an astronomer, challenged the Ptolemaic model.
, Nicolaus Copernicus
which suggested that the center of the Solar System was not the Earth but the sun
"heliocentrism",
Latter, there were works that supported the Copernican model and it was eventually accepted
to be true, correct, and valid. It was eventually accepted by people and was called the
________
birth of modern astronomy.
an English naturalist, a biologist, and a geologist, published his book entitled, "On the Origin
of the Species".
Charles Darwin
which postulated that man passes through a process of natural selection in which only the fittest
would survive.
Theory of Evolution
He stated that organisms have the ability to adapt with the environment and would gradually
change into something that would be more competitive to survive, a process known as
evolution. This theory is not accepted till this time by _____________
biblical scholars.
changed the human perception of psychology with his revolutionary Theory of Psychoanalysis
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