In the 19th century what were peoples attitudes about scientific discovery? What discoveries were being made?
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In the 1800's, scientific discovery was really encouraged (the church-science rivalry was in the 1600's). Towards the end of the 1800's, Newtonian mechanichs had been virtually perfected, and it was thought that everything in science had been discovered. Then in early 1900's, Einstein came up with Relativity, and other scientists like Maxwell, etc. introduced Quantum mechanics... Hope that answers.
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TWENTY SCIENCE ATTITUDES \n\nEmpiricism. Simply said, a scientist prefers to "look and see." You do not argue about whether it is raining outside--just stick a hand out the window. Underlying this is the belief that there is one real world following constant rules in nature, and that we can probe that real world and build our understanding--it will not change on us. Nor does the real world depend upon our understanding--we do not "vote" on science. \n\nDeterminism. "Cause-and-effect" underlie everything. In simple mechanisms, an action causes a reaction, and effects do not occur without causes. This does not mean that some processes are not random or chaotic. But a causative agent does not alone produce one effect today and another tomorrow. \n\nA belief that problems have solutions. Major problems have been tackled in the past, from the Manhattan Project to sending a man to the moon. Other problems such as pollution, war, poverty, and ignorance are seen as having real causes and are therefore solvable--perhaps not easily, but possible. \n\nParsimony. Prefer the simple explanation to the complex: when both the complex earth-centered system with epicycles and the simple Copernican sun-centered system explain apparent planetary motion, we choose the simpler. \n\nScientific manipulation. Any idea, even though it may be simple and conform to apparent observations, must usually be confirmed by work that teases out the possibility that the effects are caused by other factors. \n\nSkepticism. Nearly all statements make assumptions of prior conditions. A scientist often reaches a dead end in research and has to go back and determine if all the assumptions made are true to how the world operates. \n\nPrecision. Scientists are impatient with vague statements: A virus causes disease? How many viruses are needed to infect? Are any hosts immune to the virus? Scientists are very exact and very "picky". \n\nRespect for paradigms. A paradigm is our overall understanding about how the world works. Does a concept "fit" with our overall understanding or does it fail to weave in with our broad knowledge of the world? If it doesn't fit, it is "bothersome" and the scientist goes to work to find out if the new concept is flawed or if the paradigm must be altered. \n\nA respect for power of theoretical structure. Diederich describes how a scientist is unlikely to adopt the attitude: "That is all right in theory but it won't work in practice." He notes that theory is "all right" only if it does work in practice. Indeed the rightness of the theory is in the end what the scientist is working toward; no science facts are accumulated at random. (This is an understanding that many science fair students must learn!) \n\nWillingness to change opinion. When Harold Urey, author of one textbook theory on the origin of the moon's surface, examined the moon rocks brought back from the Apollo mission, he immediately recognized this theory did not fit the hard facts laying before him. "I've been wrong!" he proclaimed without any thought of defending the theory he had supported for decades. \n\nLoyalty to reality. Dr. Urey above did not convert to just any new idea, but accepted a model that matched reality better. He would never have considered holding to an opinion just because it was associated with his name. \n\nAversion to superstition and an automatic preference for scientific explanation. No scientist can know all of the experimental evidence underlying current science concepts and therefore must adopt some views without understanding their basis. A scientist rejects superstition and prefers science paradigms out of an appreciation for the power of reality based knowledge. \n\nA thirst for knowledge, an "intellectual drive." Scientists are addicted puzzle-solvers. The little piece of the puzzle that doesn't fit is the most interesting. Howev
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Funny thing is, every century this comes up. People changing their lives because the date corresponds to 666 are full of whooey. 600 years ago everyone knew the world was flat. 300 years ago everyone knew Earth was the center of the galaxy. And today, you know everything isn't going to change because if some misguided beliefs. Just imagine what you'll know tomorrow.
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its not that these people werent thinking of science it was just that much of the "masses"(peasents) weren't educated. the ones that were were from the clergy(church) so a science was not part of religion as we all know because God invented it all and there shouldnt be any questions or impovements but there were scientists who had ideas like devincci he had sketches of some good working tech that we have now.
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whew, all this hostility! what did we ever do to you besides offer useful information and cures for disease?\n\nscientists are out there to discover how the world works, to the benefit of the residents of this planet.\n\nwe're not out to tell people what to believe, we're not out to disprove anyone's personal convictions. we don't threaten people with hellfire and damnation because of their career choice. (funny, i know tons of religious people who ARE out to do just those things...) \n\nwe're here to find out how things work. we're out there finding out how the body works, what happened a long time ago, how the patterns of the world's climates are changing; we're discovering new species of animals, learning more about the solar system, and much much more.\n\nwe're not gods. we never claimed to be. we never will.
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It is the opinion of some that life on earth would be better if not for science and technology\nYou were not far from the answer though...
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The scientific attitude is to perform research with NO preconceptions.  Scientists go where the data leads them, no matter where that goes or how confrontational.\n\nGalileo created the strongest telescope of his time and observed the moons of Jupiter thus proving that everything does not revolve around the earth.  When he published this the Catholic Church had him confined to his house for the rest of his life.  He is responsible for several revolutionary concepts that we accept as fact for today like the fact that objects, no matter what their mass is, fall at the same rate.  The Apollo astronauts proved this by dropping a hammer and a feather on the airless moon.  Both objects hit the ground at the same time.  He also created the mathematics for calculating the path of projectiles.  This controls what angle and how much powder is used to fire guns.  The calculations are so important that the US military invented the first computer to perform them.  Galileo’s attitude about science is the bases for all modern scientific research.\n\nDarwin visited the Galapagos Islands and it became the basis for his Theory of Evolution.  He developed a theory and found sufficient information to prove it.  Most scientists believe in Evolution, even some Catholic scientists.  They hold to this belief even in the face of massive resistance from religious scholars, preachers, and others.\n\nPersonally I favor the scientific view.  I think the Earth is round, and it revolves around the sun, and that evolution is a fact.  Religious books are good, but they are based on myths and secondary data.  These books are more a guide for how to live your life rather than a source of scientific data.  Dogs are a living proof of evolution (included guided evolution).  Look at all the various types of dogs, all of which are descended from wolves.  The same is true for horses.\n\nScientists propose a theory and then find proof for it.  They then submit the idea to other scientists who try to recreate the experiment, check the data, and see if they can poke holes in the theory.  If the theory and its data pass this test then it can be published.  The Cold Fusion experiment seemed to create a lot of energy for little cost, however other scientists could not reproduce the result and so Cold Fusion theory was not accepted.
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Popular Science and National Geographic.
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Peoples opinions are just opinions, neither right nor wrong until proved either right or wrong.\n\nPeople say that Neil Armstrong went to the moon, others say he didn't and that the video footage was a hoax.\n\nUntil this is proved, people can think what they like. But then you do have other factors controlling people's views: Propaganda, brainwashing. If someone states their opinion, a lot of people will jump in like headless chicken and follow the crowds\n\nIn the middle ages people believed that the world was flat. With proof everyone now knows the world is a sphere.\n\nAre space aliens really demons? Maybe, maybe not. Until we can actually find one and ask him "hey alien, are you a demon?", we can never find out...
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Before science was discovered people wanted to know how things came to exist. So they made up stories & such. Then, when science was discovered & many of the things about religion were proven wrong, people were so devoted to religion that they chose to close their eyes from the truth.
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Humans have had a long relationship with astronomy. Some of these connections are described below. Some of them improved human life, and some just provided general information that helped humans understand their place in the universe and cope with the unknown. \n\n1. For millenia, astronomy was intertwined with astrology, and kings and rulers governed based on what predictions the stars made. With the dawning of the scientific revolution, right around the time of Kepler, astrology and astronomy went their separate ways, and most serious scientists discounted astrology when it was realized that it did not work as promised. \n\n2. Many calendars, including those of the Chinese, and the Incas, and the Europeans were based on astronomical observations. This enabled people to plan agricultural activities, predict the onset of various seasons, and time religious ceremonies. \n\n3. Astronomy was a huge boon to navigation in the age of exploration, and enabled seagoing mariners to travel around the world for exploration, and later for conquest and commerce. Some of the greatest expansion in wealth in human history has been associated with these activites. However, some of the greatest misery in human history is also associated with these collisions of cultures and peoples. \n\n4. Astronomy has helped us understand exactly what our place is in the universe. Humans have often been curious about how they came to be, and where they are, and this has lead to most of the great religions that have existed. These needs to understand and explain still exist, and explorations in astronomy are a natural outgrowth of these urges. \n\n5. Astronomy is one of the earliest sciences, and its investigation has lead to the creation of advanced mathematical techiques like calculus. These methods have been used in many other areas of science, including physics and chemistry, and been of tremendous use in engineering and the industrial revolution.\n\n6. The optical techniques that were pioneered in astronomy were soon turned to studying the microscopic world, leading to the understanding of disease, and huge improvements in medical treatments. \n\n7. Astronomy continues to have massive spinoffs of technology that benefit other human activities in areas like defense and computing. Many advanced technologies are developed and first applied in astronomy, and then eventually are applied in other sciences or in engineering. \n\n\nThis is a very incomplete list, obviously, and the list could be very much more detailed and much longer. However, it should give you a place to start with.
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Not really, especially on that scale, because at the time that most of the world was "discovered," Europe was really the only area that had decent seafaring technology.\n\nHowever, there were probably discoverers on a more local scale.
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A number of chemists contributed to the development of the periodic table during the 19th century; however, Mendeleyev Dmitry Ivanovich, a russian chemist,  is regarded as the primary discoverer. His version of the table was the first to accommodate all the known elements and also successfully predicted the existence of several elements that had not yet been discovered. These undiscovered elements included gallium, scandium, and germanium.\n\n\nDuring the writing of his book, Mendeleyev tried to classify the elements according to their chemical properties. In 1869 he published his first version of what became known as the periodic table, in which he demonstrated the periodic law. In 1871 he published an improved version of the periodic table, in which he left gaps for elements that were not yet known. His chart and theories gained increased acceptance when three predicted elements—gallium, germanium, and scandium—were subsequently discovered.
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If you think about the properties of electromagnetism and electricity itself, and you study up on Teslas ideas, it seems as if there is a whole new area of science waiting to be seen by the mainstream. It is not complicated at all and should be looked into.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_america\nNothing is known for absolute certain, but there are lots of theories
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Charles Darwin, the discoverer of evolution; Watson and Crick, the discoverers of DNA
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people who don't know jack about science