General Science
A plant that was used to make an early form of paper by the same name.
What is papyrus?
Latin prefix meaning earth.
What is "geo"?
Early Egyptian doctor that used "trial and error" to treat his patients.
Who is Imhotep?
He was a Roman Catholic Bishop and known as the "Father of the Scientific Method".
Who is Robert Grosseteste?
This scientist wrote a book called The Origin of the Species which proposed the theory of evolution.
Who is Charles Darwin?
The idea that living organisms can be spontaneously formed from non-living substances.
What is Spontaneous Generation?
Latin term meaning "to have knowledge".
What is "Scientia"?
Early Greek scientist that came up with the "Sandy Beach Analogy," to explain atoms.
Who is Democritus?
This man proposed that the sun was the center of our universe. He called it heliocentrism after the Greek god Helios.
Who was Nicholas Copernicus?
This scientist is probably the most famous quantum physicist. He also developed the Special Theory of Relativity and the General Theory of Relativity. (He also had some pretty wild hair!)
Who is Albert Einstein?
The practice of taking lead or some other inexpensive substance and trying to change it into gold by means of mixing in other substances.
What is Alchemy?
The Latin term meaning "sun". Also a Greek God.
What is "helios"?
Considered "The Father of Life Sciences," this man wrote on philosophy, mathematics, logic, and physics.
Who is Aristotle?
This man found more evidence to support heliocentrism however the Roman Catholic Church forced him to recant his position.
Who was Galileo Galilei?
This scientist was an Augustinian monk and spent most of his life studying reproduction. This lead to the development of the entire field of study called genetics.
Who was Gregor Mendel?
Large volumes (books) of scientific observations and speculations which were written down by monks during the Dark Ages which allowed the preservation of this information.
What are encyclopedias?
The Latin suffix that means "the study of".
What is -ology?
This man was the first to study and describe the planets and the stars. He came up with the geocentric system which places the earth at the center of the universe.
Who is Ptolemy?
This man, one of the greatest scientists of his time, came up with a new design for a telescope, developed calculus, and wrote a 3 volume set of books called The Principia which laid out many of the Scientific Laws we believe to be true today.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
Considered to be the "Father of Modern Physics," this Christian was guided by a Biblical Worldview and came up with a mathematical equation for electromagnetism.
Who was James Clerk Maxwell?
The smallest form of energy.
What are quanta?
The reason Latin is most often the language used for scientific terminology.
Why is, because it is a dead language?
This man used mathematical formulas to explain things. He is also famously known as the "Eureka!" man.
Who is Archimedes?
He built the first microscope and is considered to be the "Father of Microbiology".
Who is Antoni van Leeuwenhoek?
He developed the First Law of Thermodynamics.
Who is James Joule?