The Development of the Atomic Theory

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The Development of the Atomic

Theory

Write 1-2 paragraphs that describe one specific example where science has altered the course of society (history), or society has changed the direction (focus, etc.) of science.

Make sure to write clearly and include specifics. 

Please cite any sources you use. 

Does History drive Science?

OR

Does Science drive History?

Examples of the Interplay of Science and History:

Atomic bomb – even today

The Automobile

Priestley’s lab

Lavoissier’s demise

Back to the beginning…

Of civilization itself…

List the 4 origins of civilization on earth:

Hint: all were located in “fertile river valleys”

China

India

The Middle East

This stela depicts an Assyrian archer

Geographically speaking:

Some questions to ponder:

Which of the four “died out”?

Who do “we” trace our roots to?

What’s the next chapter in our story of atoms?

ΩΨΔΘΣΚ

It’s Greek to me…

Greek ElementsFire

Water

Air

Earth

Democritus (460-371 B.C.) formulated the first atomic

hypothesis (theory): All matter consists of smallest (indivisible) entities (atoms), separated by empty space.

Richard Feynman remarked that this is the most important and far-reaching hypothesis ever formulated about nature.

Democritus’ Atomic TheoryMatter composed of tiny particles

These particles are “un-cuttable” (atomos)

Called the particles “atoms”

No scientific evidence or proof

Aristotle Disagreed with

Democritus Matter is continuous No atoms Ideas persisted 2000

years Why?

The Roman Empire Romans “took over” from

the Greeks Peak of Roman Empire

around the year zero Split into 2 empires

Rome Constantinople

Final collapse Rome 410 Constantinople 476

The fall of the Roman Empires

Western -- Rome

Eastern – Constantinople

Following slide: Map of Roman Empire in the Second Century A.D.

The Middle AgesApproximately 500 AD – 1450 ADNo real progressFeudalismPlaguesCrusadesHow they thought…

The AlchemistsGoals

ConnectionsExplorationFairy talesModern Literature

Actual Benefits

Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-97)The Alchymist in Search of the Philosophers' Stone discovers Phosphorus, 1771.

Alchemists goals

To turn cheap stuff into gold

Immortality

Newton and AlchemyThe real news is … just how much and for

how long alchemy/chymistry was among Newton’s major activities. … which has shown that it was part of the intellectual scenery of the time. The news is that although Newton is a familiar name and a hero of modern science, the world he lived in and the ways he – and his contemporaries – thought are, by and large, very unfamiliar to us today.

Quoted from: http://whewellsghost.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/newton-and-alchemy-a-constant-surprise/

Art in the Middle Ages

The RennaissanceWhen

Changes in…

What REALLY changed?

A little art quiz…

Raphael 1513

Mona Lisa

1503-1506

Leonardo da Vinci

Lady with Ermine

1483-90

Leonardo da Vinci

Bindo Altoviti c. 1515

Raphael

Donatello

Statue of St. George in Orsanmichele, Florence

Madonna and Child, ca. 1326

Simone Martini (Italian [Siena], ca. 1284–1344)

A short commercial for the Getty Museums…

The Getty Villa

The Getty Museum

Robert Boyle

1627-91

First Modern Chemist

Robert Boyle

A fragment of the code that Boyle used to disguise the names of chemicals in his experimental notes

Robert Boyle

His air pump in the background

Boyle’s Law, 1662

Joseph Priestley (1733–1804)

Jacques Alexandre César Charles

1746 - 1823

Wrote very little

“Charles the Geometer”

Charles Law, 1802 (reported by Gay-Lussac)

Frightened peasants attacking Charles’ balloon

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

1778 - 1850

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Jean-Baptiste Biot in their balloon on 24 August 1804.

Lavoissier

Father of ChemistryFranceFamily lifePolitical tiesThe end…

Joseph Proust

The Law of Definite Proportions

1790’s

Law of Definite Proportions

states that a chemical compound always contains exactly the same proportion of elements by mass.

Allows us to write chemical formulas:

H2O, Na2CO3, C6H12O6

Law of Multiple Proportionsstates that the same elements can

combine in DIFFERENT ratios, forming DIFFERENT compounds.

Is H2O an example?

H2O AND H2O2 or: CO2 AND CO

1800 – What do we have?

Law of Conservation of Matter

Law of Definite Proportions

Law of Multiple Proportions

What Next?

Many ScientistsGreat AcheivementsNo unityNo understanding

John Dalton English school

teacher Worked with

gases and weather

“Daltonism” A Timeline of the

Atomic Theory

Dalton’s Atomic Theory -- 1803

1. All matter is composed of tiny, indivisible, particles called atoms.

2. Atoms of the same element are the same; atoms of different elements are different.

3. Atoms combine in small whole-number ratios to form compounds. (the Law of Definite Proportions)

4. Atoms are rearranged in chemical reactions.

The Size of Atomshttp://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/sci

enceopticsu/powersof10/index.html

The End

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