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AE Final Flashcards

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LA Air Pollution Control District

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lots of smog, first one in the world

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Donora Smog Incident

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acid in smog, 20 people died. 700 hospital, 7000 sick

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US Conference on Air pollution/UN Conference on the Eviornment

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conferences on air quality

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Air Pollution Control Act

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designated money for research but didnt do much

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Clean Air act

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called for limits. Most comprehensive act in the world

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iron eyes cody and “keep america Beautiful”

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largest community improvent in the world

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Crying indian ad

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air for kids on sat mornings

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federal water pollution control act

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didnt do anything

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clean water act

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placing limits on things put in water like wastes. MOST COMPREHENSIVE TODAY

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Tony Espera Oscar de Corti

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Fake indian, actually french.

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Thomas Spratt

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First historian of Science

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Joseph Priestley

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“Genetic Presentation”, put things in Chronological order

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19th century authors

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praised scientific community

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Auguste Comte and the Scientific Hierarchy

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wrote “Exact Sciences” and “non scientific sciences

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Henry Adams

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made scientific theory for history formula

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Scientific Theory for history formula

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increase population=more significant events.

predidted world would in in 1914=world war 1

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Isis

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Leading journal of history of science

18
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osiris

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Book reviews by history of science

19
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falsification

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not science if it cant be disproved

20
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critiical rationalism

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approach findings with questions and continue to refine theory

21
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Thomas Huhn

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Paradigm shifts, from one theory to the next

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Discovery by

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younger people because they have less invested in theory

23
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Bruno Latour

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wrote We have never been modern. denies some science

24
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Steven Shapin

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Wrote The Scientific Revolution. Talks against scientific revolution

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Highways and Automobiles on polution

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Causes more polution in air and water

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