People
Discovered the Laws of Gravity
Isaac Newton
"Human knowledge should produce useful results."
Francis Bacon
It was used to magnify images.
Concave Lens (1451)
Edmund Halley's predicted the movement of a comet using Newton's three laws of motion.
Orbits of Comets
There is a McDonald’s in every continent except...
Antarctica
Championed freedom of thought and religion and wrote "Candide".
Voltaire
"The dream is a disguised fulfillment of a suppressed wish."
Sigmund Freud
It was studied by Aristotle and the ancient Chinese. It helped navigators find their way.
Magnetism (1600)
Rules about how the universe moves, published by Isaac Newton.
Three Laws of Motions
Tyromancy is the practice of predicting the future with what?
Cheese
Englishman who wrote that human beings are naturally cruel, selfish, and greedy. Also wrote "Leviathan".
Thomas Hobbes
"My own mind is my own church."
Thomas Paine
Galileo mentored physicist Evangelista Torricelli, who designed a device to measure air pressure.
Barometer (1643)
Galileo theorized this was caused by the sun, Kepler theorized this was caused by earth's relation to the moon and Newton had a full explanation it worked.
Ocean Tides
What is a duel between three people called?
A truel
Described "perfect" government and wrote the "Spirit of Laws"
Montesquieu
"The universe is rational and based on mathematics."
Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton helps to create a branch of math that explains how movement works.
Calculus (1684, 1693)
When Tycho Brahe observed the changing stars in the sky, it proved the view that the heavens did not change is incorrect.
Supernovas and comets
What was the first toy to be advertised on television?
Mr. Potato Head
Believed in popular sovereignty and wrote "The Social Contract"
Rousseau
"Enlightenment is man leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity to use one's own intelligence without the guide of another."
Immanuel Kant
Galileo invented a version of this that allowed him to view the stars and Jupiter's moons.
Telescope (1600-1610)
Isaac Newton split white light into colored light.
Light Spectrum
What is the name of the shape of a Pringle?
Hyperbolic Paraboloid