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In Hebrew, it is the first word of the Bible in Genesis 1: 1.
What is Bereshyit?
Kepler was forced to spend a great deal of time, money, and effort on getting his mother absolved of this crime.
What was being a witch?
Leeuwenhoek visited England in 1668 and most likely saw a copy of this book that had become the first scientific bestseller.
What was Robert Hooke’s Book “Micrographia”?
Franklin was present when the Treaty of Paris was signed. This Treaty officially ended this war.
What was the Revolutionary War?
He is one of the most well know scientists in the world, formulating the equation E=MCSquared.
Who was Albert Einstein?
The first Scientist we studied this year, their contributions were initially largely Mathematical.
Who were the Oxford Calculators?
Eventually becoming a monk in order to pursue his love of scientific research, he was a born in Heizendorf bei Odrau, Austria in 1822.
Who was Gregor Mendel?
Isaac Newton invented this mathematical formula which calculated the force of attraction between two bodies.
What is the Law of Gravitation?
This slender non-practicing Jewish man from New York headed up the scientific portion of the Manhattan Project.
Who Was J. Robert Oppenheimer?
There is a rumor that this tragic Shakespearean Danish Prince may have been loosely based on Tycho Brahe.
Who is Hamlet?
People who have as their theological focus the teachings and practices of Jesus Christ are said to have this viewpoint.
What is Christocentric?
When William Harvey arrived in Padua to study at the University there, this famous astronomer had already been teaching there for seven years.
Who was Galileo Galilei?
This Dutch man started life with no real position or money, but he became known as the father of Microbiology.
Who was Antoine Van Leeuwenhoek?
He made a number of expeditions to Greenland, the fourth of which proved fatal.
Who was Alfred Wegener?
This very well known Polish Astronomer published a book called “On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres”
Who was Nicolaus Copernicus?
This feature on the face of the moon is named after Tycho Brahe
What is a crater?
Although he attended a school at Skillington, Isaac Newton was not fond of this activity.
What was studying?
Benjamin Franklin was born in this town on January 17, 1706.
What was Boston, Massachusetts?
Mendel was the first to document these types of traits in species.
What are Dominant and Recessive?
Because of the celestial timing of Christian Holy Days, people looked to these scientists to help keep these determinations true.
What are Astronomers?
J. Kepler had suffered several setbacks as a child, including a bought with smallpox, which left him with weak vision and these.
What were crippled hands?
Van Leeuwenhoek combined two other “Civil Service” jobs with this other municipal job.
What was being the official "wine-gauger" of Delft?
Ben began writing letters, signing them with the name of this fictional widow.
Who was , Silence Dogood?
These are opinions or doctrines that are at variance with the orthodox or accepted doctrine, especially of a church or religious system.
What is heresy?
This is a ancient device used to determine location by referencing the relative positions of the stars and other Heavenly bodies.
What is an Astrolabe?