49 49 50 52 53 CHAPTER 4 SCIENCE IN THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES Electricity Mathematics The Steam Engine Early Steam Engines The Biological Sciences Chemistry The Phlogiston Theory Lavoisier's Contribution Electric Current Antoine Laurent Lavoisier 19th Century Growth of Science 55 56 57 58 60 61 62 67 68 70 72 72 74 CHAPTER 5 THE 20TH CENTURY AND BEYOND 2oth Century Advances in Physics Discoveries in Genetics The Turn Toward Outer Space Big Bang Theory Hubble Space Telescope Wegener's Continental Drift Theory Modern Medicine Information Technology Scientific Communication Funding and Awards Higgs Boson The God Particle 80 81 83 85 88 90 CONCLUSION GLOSSARY FOR MORE INFORMATION FOR FURTHER READING INDEX 93 96 97
INTRODUCTION At first naturally fearful of fire our ancestors in time learned to conquer harness and utilize fire to their advantage marking one of the first scientific advances of humanity Sheila Terry Science Source
INTRODUCTION E rmchair philosophers for hundreds of years have pon dered a favorite question What was the first scientific inven tion Some say the knife Some say a the wheel others the boat Some say I learning to start use and control fire Whatever the correct answer and S whether it came about by accident or 2 experimentation it was the begin A ning of a long legacy of discovery resulting from human curiosity It I might be said that there have been scientists for as long as there have been people The story of science dates to long before the beginning of recorded history Isaac Asimov a famous science fiction and nonfiction author and biochemistry professor suggested in one of his books that the first human scientific advance 2 occurred four million years ago It was TTE when primitive humans became bipeds rising to walk on two legs Perhaps the FREE next big thing scientifically the use of stone tools occurred two million years I later A million and a half years after that archaeologists estimate humans learned how to take advantage of fire
