HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE (1)
History of Science
SECTION A
1 Have institutions or individuals played the greater role in the history of
science?
2 “Science knows no country” (Louis Pasteur). How has science travelled?
SECTION B
3 Who was involved in the production of knowledge in ancient and medieval
Iraq?
4 Would the history of medicine be different if Vesalius had anatomised
dogs instead of humans?
5 Either(a) Who observed the heavens in Early Modern Europe, and why?
Or (b) Was there anything novel about the uses of experiments and
instruments in the seventeenth century?
6 Either (a) When, where and how did science become a profession?
Or (b) “During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the study
of life moved from the garden and the field to the laboratory and the
hospital.” Do you agree?
7 “New social relations produce new views of disease.” Discuss with
reference to nineteenth-century medicine.
8 Why did it take Charles Darwin to formulate the theory of evolution by
natural selection?