Week7 Homework: Summary on "An Incomplete Education - Science by Judy Jones & William Wilson" and "The Origins of Modern Color Science by J.D.Mollon"

Summary on "An Incomplete Education - Science "

This article describes the natural science from modern physics on cosmology, life sciences,
math theory and to the law of natural evolution. In modern physical science,
the author introduces the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe. In
addition, the author also introduces four kinds of forces: the gravity, the force
associated with electricity and magnetism, the strong force which holds all
the elementary particles and the weak force which makes some unstable nuclei
and particles decay. On these four forces, the author introduces the efforts by
researchers who hope to make these four di erent kinds of forces identical. In
addition, the author also introduces two important theories in modern phys-
ical science: Chaos theory and Superstring theory. Besides physical science,
the author also introduces the achievements in life sciences, from modern
genetic engineering, the state of siege, and the human genome project. Last,
the author also introduces the interesting phenomena in number theory, like
bonacci series, topology theory, like Mobius strip, and Godel's incomplete
theorem.
In this article, the author introduces the main achievements in modern
natural science, and gives readers a big picture of the development of modern
natural science. Before the birth of color science, people commonly thought
that white light represented light in its pure forms and that color

Summary on "The Origins of Modern Color Science"

This article describes the development of modern color science from its birth in the
seventeenth century to current achievements. At the early days, people com-
monly thought that white light is of pure form and colors were modi cations
of white light. After the Newton's Experimentum crucis, people became to
realize that the white color is consisted of colored lights. Besides the intro-
duction of color theories, the author also introduces the relationship between
color and evolution. Donders explicitly suggested that human trichromacy
evolved from an earlier dichromatic state and had appeared rst in females.
From the history of science, the author states that confusion arose when
information from one domain was used to constrain models in a di erent
domain.

Comparison

The above two articles are all about the development of nat-
ural science. The di erent is the rst is about the big picture for all branches
in natural science, but the latter is a speci c branch in natural science. From
the development of science, we can see science achieves its development by a
self-denial and self-negative process.

References

1.Judy Jones & William Wilson, \An Incomplete Education -
Science".
2. J.D.Mollon, \The Origins of Modern Color Science".