SCIENCE - What actually is Science ?

[Mike Smith Cosmos]

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4. ANTIBIOTICS.

 

Well this is well and truly out of my field .

 

Other than to understand the principle .

 

Alexander Fleming was the man of Science , a doctor . Experiments .

 

( However yet again , another man figuratively falling out of bed onto a dead cat , and it being named " shroeniger cat " the most remembered phenomenon of Quantum behaviour " )

 

Alexanders experiment was left unattended , by accident . He thus then discovered Penicillin. An anti biotic that started a whole line of cures until today .

 

Probably the most lucrative business within the medical profession .

 

Mike

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Maybe this is the way to make discoveries when you are not looking

 

Alexander Fleming . Cannot be that long ago . My wife said just now , that she used to attend Alexander Flemming 's son Surgery , apparently a Doctor .

 

Small world

Edited April 3, 2016 by Mike Smith Cosmos

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5 . The SUBMARINE

 

The recognised inventor ( apart from various underwater , non confirmed reports before ) was

Cornelis Drebbel

 

 

Note the terminology of INVENTOR, rather than DISCOVERER. So, more technology and engineering. Neat stuff, but not science.

[Mike Smith Cosmos]

Note the terminology of INVENTOR, rather than DISCOVERER. So, more technology and engineering. Neat stuff, but not science.

 

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5 . The SUBMARINE

 

The recognised inventor ( apart from various underwater , non confirmed reports before ) was

Cornelis Drebbel

 

 

Link :- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelis_Drebbel

 

Note he became famous across Europe . Associating and sharing skills and inventions with some of the famous names of Science ( like Huygens , Galileo, etc ) . He was recognised for his skills and innovations .

 

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Drebbel: A great innovator! The Edison of his time, he was a brilliant empiric researcher and innovator. Drebbels constructions and innovations cover in particular measurement and control technology, pneumatics, optics, chemistry, hydraulics and pyrotechnics. With Staten General he registered several patents. Drebbel wrote some interesting essays about his experiments with air pressure. He made beautiful engravings; the subject was The Seven Liberal Arts on a map of the city of Alkmaar.

 

'Measurement- and control technology/pneumatics': Famous for his Perpetuum Mobile, builds and navigates with a submarine. Builds an incubator for eggs and a portable stove/oven with an optimal use of fuel, able to keep the heat on a constant temperature by means of a regulator/thermostat. Designs a solar energy system for London (perpetual fire), demonstrates air-conditioning, let it rain, makes lightning and thunder on command, develops fountains, fresh water supply for the city of Middelburg. Involved in the draining of the moors around Cambridge (the Fens). Develops predecessors of the barometer and thermometer, the "Drebbeliaensch instrument", harpsichords that play on solar energy.

 

Optics: Develops an automatic precision lens-grinding machine, builds improved telescopes, constructs the first microscope ('lunette de Dreubells'), camera obscura, laterna magica, manufactures Dutch or Batavian tears

 

Chemistry: Develops an innovative way to improve and produce scarlet red dye, establishes a dye works in Stratford-at-Bow-on-Lea. Develops a methodology to re-gain silver ore. Makes probably- oxygen for his submarine.

 

Hydraulics: Makes theater props, moving statues. Is involved in plans to build a new theater in London

 

Pyrotechnics: produces torpedoes and seamines and a detonator with Batavian tears, uses fulminating mercury aurum fulminarum- as an explosive.

 

In 1619 Drebbel designed and built telescopes and microscopes and was, with Gerbier, involved in a building project for the Duke of Buckingham. William Boreel, the Dutch Ambassador to England, mentions the microscope that was developed by Drebbel.[6] Drebbel became famous for his invention in 1621 of a microscope with two convex lenses. Several authors, including Christiaan Huygens assign the invention of the compound microscope to Drebbel. However, a Neapolitan, named Fontana, claimed the discovery for himself in 1618.[7] Other sources attribute the invention of the compound microscope directly to Hans Jansen and his son Zacharias around 1595.[8] In 1624 Galileo sent a Drebbel-type microscope to Federico Cesi (15851630), a wealthy noble man in Rome who used it to illustrate Apiarum, his book about bees.[9]" UNQUOTE

 

I think this shows an aptitude as well as performance for the advanced sciences of that time . Apart from designing and building a Submarine . I don't really see , how he could have done this catalogue of achievements in association with other recognised scientists , without using science , as a means of recognising the function of nature , and it's structure, in order to make all these things work ?

 

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Edited April 3, 2016 by Mike Smith Cosmos

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5 . The SUBMARINE

 

The recognised inventor ( apart from various underwater , non confirmed reports before ) was

Cornelis Drebbel

 

 

 

You already said this.

[Mike Smith Cosmos]

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6 . ROCKETRY .

 

It would be very difficult not to mention NASA.

 

Here is a quote from a NASA site

" Rockets have always been a big part of what NASA does, and someone has to make them fly. But what is a rocket scientist? The truth is, a lot of them are actually engineers -- men and women who take the raw science of Newtonian physics and apply it to design vehicles to launch things into space. As NASA research engineer Tom Benson put it, "Call them what you want, scientist or engineer. People who work on rockets have to eventually build an efficiently working piece of machinery that has many complex physical and chemical phenomena present that must be fully understood. The success of the rocket depends on the knowledge and experience of the builder."

 

Again we see this crossover of Science and Engineering.

 

From Ancient times to today people have experimented, played , and designed Rockets that are currently viewing outer parts of the Solar System .

 

Do you want to be a Rocket Scientist : Read on :- link :- http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/rocketry/home/#.VwGi2ie9KK1

 

 

 

Mike

Edited April 3, 2016 by Mike Smith Cosmos

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Moderator Note

Alright, this ends here. Your original topic was asking what science was, not, 'let me list a bunch of seemingly random examples from the field of engineering.' The difference has been explained to you, but you insist on dragging this thread down completely unrelated paths regardless.

 

This thread is closed, and it is not being reopened. For once, please open a thread with a coherent and clearly defined topic, and stick to it. It would make all of our lives and interactions much more pleasant.