1 February, 2000

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Lecture 7

• 1 February, 2000

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Announcements

• First Exam - This Thursday
• Class Web Site
• College Page http//nsci.csusb.edu
• http//nsci.csusb.edu/nsci_300/nsci.htm

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Week Four

• Faith in numbers - Connections, chapter 4
• Development of Technology
• Bronowski, chapter 3
• Exam1

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FAITH IN NUMBERS

• Rome falls
• Cheap labor system disintegrates
• Mills save labor
• originally to grind grain
• developed for tanning, ore-crushing, sawing,
  blast furnace, etc

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Cloth

• New Horizontal loom fast and like
  silk.Spinning wheel increase in
  productionCarillon automatic bell
  ringer.Champagne Fairs markets. Investors and
  merchants.

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Black Plague. Half the population lost.

• The technology of production was there, fewer
  people there to operate it with more money to
  build it.Clothing- Advance in quality
• "Rag and Bone Man
• Paper -Books- (Carol)
• Printing press. Gutenburg (1457? AD)

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Grape Press-Paper Press- Printing press.

• Passing of information without personal contact.
• Author responsible-specialization.
• Standardized spelling.
• Accelerated the dissemination of knowledge.

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Rennaissance

• Aldus Manutius
• pocket books
• Translated Greek Classics
• Hero - water toys (Greek 200 BC)
• Automated Water Gardens

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Technology

• More automation - Organ
• Jacquard Loom-punch card
• Hollerith's Punch card Computer.

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View Faith in Numbers
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Pre-historic and Pre-Classical Technology

• Origin of Humans
• Most Likely Africa
• Arboreal to ground
• Transition to upright
• Tuang baby, upright head, teeth, gt2 Ma
• Change in hand (thumb)
• Change in Skull (brain size)
• Tools - stone
• Culture

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Homo Sapiens

• Neanderthal
• 200,000 years ago
• Homo Sapiens
• 50,000 years ago
• Elaborate tools
• spear thrower
• harpoon (15,000)
• elaborate flint tools
• bows - (15,000) last ice age

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Handy Work

• Artistry (20,000)
• Australia
• Pottery (12,000 BP)
• Japan
• Metal working (7000 BP)
• Copper - Europe

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Agriculture

• Emmer wheat - wild grass x goat grass
• larger grains, wind dispersed
• Sickle - 10,000 BC
• flint edges set in antler
• Bread wheat - Emmer wheat x goat grass
• larger grains, detached from chaff
• dependant on man for propagation
• Fortified cities - Jericho - gt7000 BC
• bricks, towers, flint worked masonry

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Americas

• Peru
• potatos
• North America
• Maize - corn
• gt2000 BC

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Food

• abundance allows for non-food-producing
• writing
• Social Structure
• Large buildings

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Celestial understanding

• Stonehenge (2,000 BC)
• Predict Solstice and Equinox
• Maya gt(300 AD)
• Calendar
• Easter Island
• 1000 miles from nearest land

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Exam Thursday

• 50 True-False, 25 Multiple choice
• Views Burke, Bronowski, Weisskopf
• Major Players
• What they did, discovered or thought.
• Advances and where they lead.