Vocabulary
People
Dates
Discoveries in Chemistry
Scientific Revolution
100
Geocentric Theory
What is the earth centered view of the universe?
100
Ptolemy
Who expanded the theory in the second century?
100
1566
What year did Marie de Coste Blanche publishes The Nature of the Sun and Earth?
100
As a young man
When did Galileo learn that a Dutch lens maker had built an instrument that could enlarge far-off objects?
200
Scientific Revolution
What was a new way of thinking about the natural world?
200
Galileo Galilei
Who built on the new theories about astronomy?
200
1610
What year did Galileo publish Starry Messenger?
200
That matter was made up of smaller primary particles that joined together in different ways.
What did Boyle propose?
200
News tools and instruments
What did scientists develop to make the precise observations that the scientific method demanded?
300
Heliocentric
What means sun-centered?
300
Issac Newton
Who helped bring together their breakthrough under a single theory of motion?
300
1643
What year did Torricelli invent the barometer?
300
Boyles Law
What law explains how the volume, temperature, and pressure of gas affect each other?
300
Gabriel Fahrenheit
Who made the first thermometer to use mercury in glass?
400
Scientific Method
What is a new approach to science called?
400
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Who used a microscope to observe bacteria swimming in tooth scrapings?
400
1687
What year did Newton publish the law of gravity?
400
Edward Jenner
Who introduced a vaccine to prevent smallpox?
500
Thermometer
What something that shows water freezing at 32 degrees?
500
Torricelli
Who developed the first mercury barometer?
500
1590
What year did Janssen invent th microscope?
500
The Sceptical Chymist
What book did Robert Boyle challenge Aristotles idea that the physical world consisted of 4 elements?
500
Catholic Church
What warned Galileo not to defend the ideas of Copernicus?
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