History of Science and Technology
Start discussion — yuti on June 13th, 2007
How can knowledge spread from one community onto another? How advertisements persuade people to buy their product? Gabrial Tarde(1895), a pioneer in doing innovation research, believed the human tendency to imitate fellow beings was the fundamental law of all social phenomena. By seeing it natural phenomena, diffusion was a net movement from high concentration to […]
Popularity: 33%
Start discussion — yuti on June 4th, 2007
In 1881, French semi-popular and scientific press is full of articles about Pasteur laboratories work. Scientist, journalist, hygienist, focus their attention on a few microbes which observe under microscope. Laboratories became bounder-less because observation was not only done by the scientist in laboratories, but also by journalist which observe the scientist work. The situation became […]
Popularity: 29%
Start discussion — yuti on June 2nd, 2007
The drawing and painting of people and animals, an activity of artists since primitive times, is clearly associated with symmetry and nature. Johannes Kepler, the astronomer who discovered that the planets move round the sun in ellipses, examined how a plane could completely filled with equal regular polygons. Music and symmetry also have a close […]
Popularity: 21%
Recent Comments