Ancient History
Who was the Egyptian doctor who used trial and error to treat illnesses?
Who is Imhotep
Studied with Thales, believed all life began in the sea.
Who is Anaximander
Who proposed that the Earth travelled around the sun?
Who is Nicholas Copernicus
Who was Robert Boyle
Developed Democritus's theory of atoms further
Who was John Dalton
Proposed the idea that all matter is composed of Atoms
Who is Leucippus
Studied with Anaximander, believed air to be the most basic substance.
Who is Anaximenes.
Who was Johannes Kepler.
Inventor of the microscope, and person who discovered microbes
Who was Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
Invented pasteurization, worked with vaccines.
Who was Louis Pasteur
Used math to explain science, worked with fluids, and could predict if something would sink or float.
Who is Archimedes
What is a solar system in which the planets, stars, and sun orbit the Earth called?
What is a Geocentric system.
Perfected the telescope, and was jailed by the Church for Heresy.
Who was Galileo Galilei
Attempted to classify all living things, and give them Latin names.
Who was Carrolus Linnaeus
Attempted to explain how traits passed from parents to offspring, called "The Father of Genetics"
Who was Gregor Mendel
Proposed the geocentric universe.
This English scientist is often called "The Father of the Scientific Method."
Who is Robert Grosseteste.
Who proposed a law of gravitation, and also invented calculus?
Who is Sir Isaac Newton
According to Boyle's Law, if a gas's container is made smaller and the amount of gas in the container doesn't change, the pressure within the container should:
The pressure should increase.
Created 1st Law of Thermodynamics--energy cannot be created or destroyed.
Proposed the idea of Spontaneous Generation, which was accepted for hundreds of years after.
Who is Aristotle
When a planet's orbit looks like an oval, rather than a circle, it is called what?
What is an eliptical orbit.
Two important books were published in 1543. What were they called?
"On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres" and "On the Fabric of the Human Body"
Explained combustion, named oxygen, and proposed the Law of Conservation of Mass
Who was Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (hon hon hon)
Two scientists who, together, showed that electricity and magnetism were related
Who were Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell