Branches of Study

Welcome to the Woodmont High School Science Department online library. This resource is provided for the promotion of scientific education, literacy, and thought. Please use the links above to navigate this site.

The use of primary sources and other scientific litterature is of great value for the education of young scientists and citizens of a technologically advance society such as seen in the United States. We give great thanks to the many contributers and publishing companies that have made this online library possible.

For more information about this resource or Woodmont High School please contact science faculty member Mr. Dietz.

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A Historical Vantage Point

The scientific revolution has brought about a tremendous change in the civilizations of the globe. It is the scientific revolution that made the industrializaiton of the world possible, and has lead to the reduction of poverty world wide bringing a global increase of material wealth like none ever seen before. Though the scientific revolution is still underway, it has historical roots in the ancient world. roman colosseum Before Isaac Newton there was Euclid, and before William Harvey there was Galen. In fact, a rich heritage of greek and roman scholarship helped the experimenters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries make their landmark discoveries. Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, and Archimedes stimulated the study of physics and mathematics. Similarly the study of biology was vastly affected by the works of Hippocrates, Galen, Dioscorides, and Theophrastus. The works of these philosophers and more are available here at this online library. Learn about the ideas that changed the world forever!