QUIZ pp. 633-6371. Who was the author

of ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES?

2. What is the central idea of this book?

3. What French scientist developed the GERM THEORY OF DISEASE?

4. Who was Joseph Lister?

QUIZ ANSWERS

1. CHARLES DARWIN 2. EVOLUTION3. LOUIS PASTEUR4. ANTISEPTIC PRACTICES

A NEW AGE OF SCIENCE

1. THERMODYNAMICS2. LOUIS PASTEUR3. DMITRI MENDELEYEV4. MICHAEL FARADAY

• Growing faith in the benefits of science• Popularity of sci and tech achievement• Increasing secularization• Materialism• Science as only path to truth and reality

CHARLES DARWIN AND THE THEORY OF ORGANIC EVOLUTION1. Appointed naturalist studying

plants/animals on a Royal Navy sci expedition HMS BEAGLE

2. Beagle voyaged to South America and South Pacific

3. Studied animals untouched by external influences

4. Developed theory that animals evolved over time and in response to their environment

5. Publishes – On the Origin of Species

ORGANIC EVOLUTION• Natural selection = survival of the fittest• ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES 1859 = theory of evolution• THE DESCENT OF MAN 1871 = animal origins of man• Darwin’s ideas highly controversial are we just another

species of animals?

A REVOLUTION IN HEALTH CARE• Clinical observation

• Germ theory of disease = LOUIS PASTEUR

• Principle of vaccination

• New environment for surgical operationsa. anesthesiab. discovery of germs – ANTISEPTIC PRACTICE

• Preventative medicine

• Public health movement

• New medical schools Louis Pasteur

SCIENCE AND THE STUDY OF SOCIETY1. Application of scientific approach to the study of

man/human society = sociology2. AUGUSTE COMTE

a. positivismb. father of sociologyc. total faith in science

Auguste Comte – the founder of sociology