Science 2.History of Science 3.The World is Comprehensible.
Exercise 18. Vocabulary. Study the following words and expressions.
1. regularities
2. survival
3. daily “motion”
4. annual “motion”
5. to correlate
6. terrestrial
7. to determine
8. crucial
9. starvation
10. dawn
11. to exhaust
12. construct
13. to leap to conclusion
14. to tolerate
15. upheaval
16. detached
17. to employ
18. premature generalization
19. realm
20. causation
21. causal chain
22. propitiation
Exercise 19. Find an appropriate answer in the text:
1. Rational thinking is not the only way to do science .
2. Science is about nature and its laws .
3. Why it is dangerous to do premature generalization?
Exercise 20. You are a medieval scientist. You are welcome to choose any major from Alchemy to Theology. Describe your “scientific project according to Table 1.
| Major | Project | Components& conditions | Expectations |
| Example: Alchemy | Transformation of iron into gold | Iron, frogs, bats, herbs, night fogs, apprentice to blame, glass of vine to reward yourself, | Wellbeing, world power, immortality or king’s favour, probably good life |
Exercise 21. And now you are a modern scientist. You are welcome to transform your project from Table 1 to a scientific one or to explain why it cannot be a scientific project.
Table 2
| Major | Project | Components& conditions | Expectations |
| Example: from Alchemy to Chemistry | Extraction gold from gold-bearing rock | Gold-bearing rock, equipment, laboratory, appropriate knowledge, reactive chemicals | Experience, skills, mine industry development, career rise |
LIBRARY
Some books leave us free, and some books make us free.
Emerson
Text vocabulary
to scale up – расширяться, наращивать мощность
to establish - устанавливать, создавать
library stock – библиотечное хранилище
to merge - объединять
incorporated – включенный
Library and Information System – библиотечно-информационная система
to comprise – состоять из, охватывать
industrial college – промышленный колледж
research activity – исследовательская деятельность
to train specialists – обучать специалистов
to grant - предоставлять
free access – свободный доступ
to serve - обслуживать
guideline – методическое пособие (методичка)
tutorial – учебное пособие
free subscription – бесплатная подписка
the electronic theses and dissertations collection – электронная библиотека диссертаций
Exercise 1. Make up phrases from the given words.
electronic database
textbook
manual
librarian
scientific journal
to publish a paper
to register an author
to search keywords
to use printed issue
to be involved
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