Nicholas/Arty
Name the "heavenly element."
Quintessence
What was the name of Boyle's group of intellectuals with whom he shared his passion for science?
Experimental Philosophy Club
Cuvier proved that extinctions occur by comparing the bones of elephants with the bones of what?
mammoths
Thales was the tutor to what famous 13 year old?
Prince Alexander of Macedon (later known as Alexander the Great)
What was the name of Boyle's publication that rejects Aristotle's account of the elements?
The Sceptical Chymist
Cuvier's name is inscribed on what landmark?
The Eiffel Tower
This scientist correctly predicted an eclipse, ending a 15-year war.
Thales
Hooke's architectural skills aided in the restoration of what city after what fire?
London, after the Great Fire
Joseph Fourier traveled with what famous person to Egypt to study Egyptian relics?
Napoleon
Archemedes said, "Give me a lever and a place to stand, and I'll ___________________."
move the Earth
Who called Hooke's book "The most ingenious book I ever read in my life?"
Samuel Pepys
Nicholas Steno abandoned science to do what?
become a bishop
Archemedes proved that a sphere's volume is what portion of a cylinder encasing it exactly?
2/3
A flea
"Fixed air" was Joseph Black's name for what?
carbon dioxide
Zhang Heng's siesmoscope traced Earth tremors. On detection, a ball made a sound by dropping from one of the eight dragon's heads into the what below it?
Frog
What did Leeuwenhoek name the tiny creatures (protozoa) that he observed in his microscopes?
animalcules
Who was Abraham Lincoln's technical advisor?
Joseph Henry
How many pages of Galen's works survive today?
20,000
Isaac Newton said, "I now demonstrate the frame of _______________________________."
the system of the world
What chemical did Faraday discover in 1825?
Students at Hippocrates' school swore an oath of confidentiality (to keep a patient's illness private) and an oath of ________________ (to ensure that a patient is never harmed).
nonmaleficence
Who discovered the pendulum as a regulator of clock movement?
Huygens
Who discovered red blood cells?
Swammerdam
Who introduced the idea that the Earth and planets orbit around a central "Hearth?"
Pythagoras
Newton extensively studied the nature of light and made great advances, which he published in his 1704 text called what?
Optiks
Leclerc argued that the earth was much older than what had previously allowed?
biblical explanations
Name the Greek god of healing who visited Galen's father in a dream.
Asclepius
Boyle's law describes an inversely proportional relationship between the __________ and ___________ of a gas.
volume and pressure
Aggasiz, like Cuvier, rejected the idea of what?
evolution