Often called the father of modern chemistry for his efforts to organize the elements being discovered in the 19th Century.
What is John Dalton
100
He popularized James Jutton's theory of the earth being in a perpetual cycle of decay and renewal.
What is Charles Lyell
100
The application of Darwin's theory of eveolution by means of natural selection to sociology and politics
What is Social Darwinism
100
Provided a well documented explanation of the mechanism by which transmutation occurs.
What is Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
100
Its mapping expedition required the services of a naturalist on board to catalogue specimen and collect samples for British museums.
What is HMS Beagle
200
Developed the Phlogiston Theory of Combustion
What is George Stahl
200
It demonstrates that there are creatures in the past that do not exist in the present.
What is the Fossil Record
200
Invented the Steam Engine, which helped to spur the Industrial Revolution.
What is James Watt
200
When it was published in 1543, it did not create much controversy. In fact, most universities used it in their mathematical curriculum. However, it rocked the world of astronomy in the 17th century.
What is On the Revolution of Heavenly Spheres
200
His theory of the relationship between resources and population led Darwin to the break through he needed to explain the driver of evolution.
What is Thomas Malthus
300
He demonstrated that in chemical reactions matter is neither created nor destroyed.
What is Antoine Lavoiser
300
It led to the development of classification systems for living organism and debates as to the origins of life.
What is the species question
300
Meet on the night of the full-moon to discuss current issues in natural philosophy, science, engineerig, and medicine.
What is the Lunar Society
300
Galileo was already being closely watched by the Church when he crossed the line with this publication.
What is Dialogue on Two Chief Systems of the World
300
Although unrecognized at the time, specimen collected here eventually led Darwin to develop his theory of evolution.
What is the Galapagos
400
A time period when the four elements were discovered to actually be a combination of elements, and that matter was reducible into very small particles.
What is The Chemical Revolution
400
He developed the science of comparative anatomy which allowed him to reconstruct creatures from the past found in the fossil record, thereby proving the theory of extinction.
What is Georges Cuvier
400
One of the most prominent popularizers of science in the 19th century, his Friday Night experiments were the hottest tickets in London. But his best discovery was Michael Faraday.
What is Sir Humphrey Davy
400
Although it provided a mathematical formula to calculate measurement of motion, the new discipline it created has ruined numerous GPA's.
What is The Principia.
400
Developed a bionomial classification system based largely on the taxomic characteristics of organisms.
What is Carl Linnaeus
500
He discovered that dephlogisticated air was the purest and best for humans, and that life was maintained by an equalibrium between the respiration of plants and animals.
What is Joesph Priestly
500
Theory of the earth that the same natural events and phenomena occur in the past and present and with the same intensity.
What is Uniformitarianism
500
Revolutionized the organization of labor and separated the skilled artisian from ownership of the maunfacturing process.
What is the Factory System
500
Overturned fifteen hundred years of accepted anatomy, and started a revolution in medicine.
What is De Humani Corporis Fabris
500
He believed that transmutation occured by the accumulation of acquired traits, with environment as the key driver in change.