"father of modern observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics",science, modern science"
Who is Galileo Galilei
100
Who's work provided the basis for the calculus developed by Newton and Gottfried Leibniz
What is Rene Descartes
100
Often referred to as the father of modern parasitology
Who is Francesco Redi
100
This English physicist and mathematician established 3 basics laws of Physics.
What is Isaac Newton
100
The relationship between pressure and volume.
What is Boyle’s law.
200
german mathematician, astronomer and astrologer
who is Johannes Kepler
200
Who developed the Cartesian or analytic geometry, which uses algebra to describe geometry.
What is Rene Descartes
200
the man who theorized how the cardiovascular system functioned
who is William Harvey
200
This scientist also independently discovered the law of reflection, and his essay on optics was the first published mention of this law
Who is Rene Descartes
200
His work with distillation devices and improvements in furnaces made him one of the earliest chemical engineers.
Who is Johann Glauber
300
a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at its center
who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
300
Came up with modern Calculus notation.
Who is Leibniz
300
This man developed one of the first microscopes
Who is Robert Hooke?
300
This man built the first practical reflecting telescope and developed a theory of color based on the observation that a prism decomposes white light into the many colors of the visible spectrum.
What is Isaac Newton
300
Presented his “Table of Affinities” to the French Academy of Science in 1718
Who is Etienne-Francois Geoffroy
400
the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around a relatively stationary Sun at the center of the Solar System
what is heliocentrism?
400
Changed original logarithms into common (base 10) logarithm
Who was Henry Briggs
400
Often referred to as the father of modern parasitology
Who is Francesco Redi
400
This 1670 Gresham lecture explained that gravitation applied to "all celestial bodies" and added the principles that the gravitating power decreases with distance and that in the absence of any such power bodies move in straight lines.
Who is Robert Hooke
400
First to experiment with electrical conduction
Who is Stephen Gray
500
name of the four largest satellites of Jupiter
what are the Galilean moons?
500
The fathers of calculus
Who were Newton and Leibniz
500
The first microbiologist who had also coincidentally really awesome name
Who is Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek
500
This law is a principle of physics that states that the force F needed to extend or compress a spring by some distance X is proportional to that distance. That is:F = -kX, where k is a constant factor characteristic of the spring, its stiffness.
What is Hooke's Law
500
Came up with Amonton’s Law (you have to write the first and last name on the whiteboard, without looking at any resources while up there)