{"id":111,"date":"2015-06-18T07:02:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T07:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetryofscience.peachpuff-wolverine-566518.hostingersite.com\/?p=111"},"modified":"2015-06-18T07:03:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T07:03:06","slug":"a-brief-history-of-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/thepoetryofscience\/111\/a-brief-history-of-science\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History of Science"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let us begin, as with all things in Greece<\/p>\n

Where science was used to bring about peace<\/p>\n

Thales the Milesian foretold an eclipse;<\/p>\n

With the Saros cycle he\u2019d come to grips.<\/p>\n

Empedocles gave us the humours four<\/p>\n

And then cried himself immortal before<\/p>\n

Into a volcano he thought to dive;<\/p>\n

We speak of him now, so he\u2019s still alive.<\/p>\n

Eratosthenes then measured the Earth<\/p>\n

By using a solstice to give the girth<\/p>\n

The circumference taken at this event,<\/p>\n

Was within an error of two per cent.<\/p>\n

The king of Sicily we have to thank,<\/p>\n

For Archimedes getting in a tank<\/p>\n

Of water, before naked he did sound<\/p>\n

Eureka! The law of displacement I\u2019ve found.<\/p>\n

Of Aristotle I will just be brief,<\/p>\n

For he was not of science, but a thief.<\/p>\n

He stole the maven from their poet form<\/p>\n

And left us separated and forlorn.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

In the dark ages much science was lost<\/p>\n

What Copernicus knew came at a cost.<\/p>\n

Then came great Tycho with his golden nose;<\/p>\n

Kepler\u2019s three laws did the old rules expose.<\/p>\n

Elliptical orbits in two foci,<\/p>\n

With Time squared and length cubed he mapped the sky.<\/p>\n

By testing these thoughts with experiments,<\/p>\n

Galileo caused a chain of events.<\/p>\n

Sadly his resistance was more than air,<\/p>\n

As the Catholic Church caused much despair.<\/p>\n

From Venus\u2019s transit, Horrocks did prove<\/p>\n

That the geocentric model must move.<\/p>\n

Huygens proposed light was like waves at sea,<\/p>\n

Newton said No! Particles it must be.<\/p>\n

And Isaac\u2019s opinion held the most sway,<\/p>\n

His mad genius forced others away,<\/p>\n

From Liebnitz to Hooke and all in between<\/p>\n

This force of nature was selfish and mean.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Horizons were now expanding at speed<\/p>\n

As science tried hard to sate mankind\u2019s need.<\/p>\n

Linnaeus set out a new catalogue,<\/p>\n

With animal, plant and mineral to log.<\/p>\n

He used these to group all things on the grounds<\/p>\n

Nature does not proceed by leaps and bounds.<\/p>\n

Lavoisier then set out to prove<\/p>\n

That whilst in reactions, chemicals move<\/p>\n

Nothing is created and nothing lost,<\/p>\n

To the total balance there is no cost.<\/p>\n

Another Frenchman, Proust, then showed us how<\/p>\n

That no matter what mixture you allow<\/p>\n

Elements will combine in the same way,<\/p>\n

Definite proportions will just hold sway.<\/p>\n

The church now was loosing the great debate<\/p>\n

That Earth was as old Adam\u2019s birthdate.<\/p>\n

As Hutton revealed the following trend:<\/p>\n

No hint of start and no hope of an end,<\/p>\n

Herschel turned his lens to the sky<\/p>\n

And found round our sun new planets to fly.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

A century of progress was to come<\/p>\n

Which would leave non-believers feeling numb.<\/p>\n

The concept of the atom was not great,<\/p>\n

So Dalton came along to lend some weight<\/p>\n

And even though to colour he was blind<\/p>\n

Relative atomic sums he assigned.<\/p>\n

But ordering these numbers made no sense,<\/p>\n

Chemists like John Newlands it did incense,<\/p>\n

Until Mendeleev showed how it was done,<\/p>\n

His table predicted geranium.<\/p>\n

The valency of atoms is their bond,<\/p>\n

Determining how molecules respond,<\/p>\n

Their non-linear structure was opaque<\/p>\n

Until Kekul\u00e9 dreamed up a giant snake.<\/p>\n

Yet something more fantastic was to come<\/p>\n

To electricity we did succumb.<\/p>\n

And one day you may tax it! Came the cry<\/p>\n

As Faraday induced a current by<\/p>\n

Moving magnetic fields across two coils<\/p>\n

Henry showed the same but lost the spoils.<\/p>\n

By working out the conservation cost,<\/p>\n

Joule showed how energy is never lost;<\/p>\n

Electromagnetism had a path,<\/p>\n

And Maxwell proved it all with gorgeous math.<\/p>\n

As Becquerel then later used X-Rays<\/p>\n

He noticed something that soon would amaze,<\/p>\n

By keeping samples in captivity<\/p>\n

He had found radioactivity.<\/p>\n

But then, as with all things good in mankind,<\/p>\n

It took a woman\u2019s touch to truly find<\/p>\n

How this was an atomic property<\/p>\n

Thank heavens that we had Marie Curie.<\/p>\n

With atomic theory now running rings,<\/p>\n

Darwin did question the nature of things<\/p>\n

Did man come from ape, or was ape from man,<\/p>\n

Were we part of some grand event or plan?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

A shift in paradigm was close at hand<\/p>\n

What we now knew we did not understand.<\/p>\n

Light was not particle, nor was it wave<\/p>\n

Planck showed how it should discretely behave,<\/p>\n

Einstein then realised what all this meant:<\/p>\n

Space-time is relative; light could be bent.<\/p>\n

Schr\u00f6dinger gave us far more than a cat,<\/p>\n

His wave equations showed physicists that<\/p>\n

Classical orbits were really a lie.<\/p>\n

As Heisenberg found you could not rely,<\/p>\n

On measuring speed and place at one time,<\/p>\n

To say things are certain would be a crime.<\/p>\n

Whilst Wegener proved how Earth drifts apart<\/p>\n

Lemaitre showed the big bang was the start;<\/p>\n

Hubble said our Universe does expand<\/p>\n

Measuring galaxies like grains of sand.<\/p>\n

As Chandrasekhar made his black hole mark<\/p>\n

Zwicky then showed most of matter is dark,<\/p>\n

But nothing was blacker than mankind\u2019s heart<\/p>\n

When Oppenheimer split atoms apart;<\/p>\n

The destroyer of worlds, now he was death!<\/p>\n

Even today, we are holding our breath.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Building blocks of life were now being seen,<\/p>\n

With science appearing as if from dream.<\/p>\n

Hoyle showed how we are all made from stardust,<\/p>\n

Urey and Miller said life\u2019s not nonplussed.<\/p>\n

Watson and Crick unravelled DNA,<\/p>\n

Everett showed where there\u2019s will there\u2019s a way,<\/p>\n

Keeling proved that climate change is man\u2019s sin<\/p>\n

Lorenz showed the chaos that we live in.<\/p>\n

Higgs said a vacuum has some stuff in it<\/p>\n

Hawking showed that a black hole does emit<\/p>\n

Whilst Wilmut cloned a new sheep from a cell<\/p>\n

Tim Berners-Lee opened heaven and hell.<\/p>\n

Marcy revealed all the worlds in between,<\/p>\n

Geim and Noveselov gave us graphene.<\/p>\n

With lots to unravel and more to find,<\/p>\n

Does science have answers for all mankind?<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The School of Athens: close to where it all began.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This poem is constructed using heroic couplets<\/a>, and dedicated to the history of science. It was written for and performed at the Science Showoff<\/a> in Manchester, as part of the British Science Association\u2019s<\/a> Science Communication Conference 2015<\/a>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It is in no means complete, but it is at least a start. Please let me know (in the comments below) which of your favourite and most influential scientists I have missed out and I will try to incorporate them into future versions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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