Famous scientists
Science Vocabulary
The forgotten ones
Rococo
Masterpieces and authors
100

He invented the modern telescope

Galileo Galilei

100

A big change, especially in a society or country.

Revolution

100

A group with a very active rol during 17th Century and French Revolution but shadowed by History.

Women

100

This is the country where this style was born in the 18th century.

France

100

The most famous painting of Rococo style and its author.

"The Swing" by Jean Honoré Fragonard

200

He described the planetary motion around the Sun with elliptical orbits.

Johannes Kepler

200

A model of the Universe where the Earth is at the centre.

Heliocentric Theory

200

She is called the "Mother of Chemistry"

Madame Marie Anne Lavoisier

200

The Rococo buildings had plain facades with very decorated interiors. True or false?

True

200

This is our Spanish version of Versalles palace in Segovia. Say its name and the Spanish king who commissioned it.

La Granja Palace, commissioned by king Philip V of Bourbon. 

300

He created a classification system for animals and plants (taxonomy)

Carl Linnaeus

300

A model of the Universe where the Sun is in the middle.

Heliocentric Theory

300

She was known for being and important patron that supported artists and intellectuals.

Madame de Pompadour

300

Rococo reflected a hedonistic lifestile. What kind of lifestyle is that?

A happy and careless way of life.

300

This is the most famous example of Rococo decorated room in the Royal Palace of Madrid.

The Gasperini Room

400

He created the smallpox vaccine

Edward Jenner

400

To test out a hypothesis

Experiment

400

She is consider to be one of the first feminists in History.

Olympe de Gouges

400

Enlightened thinkers criticised this style. Why?

Because of its superficiality.

400

An exception in Rococo decoration: a Spanish palace with a very ornated facade with two figures representing Júcar and Turia rivers.

Palace of Marqués de Dos Aguas in Valencia

500

He was a Scottish inventor who improved Thomas Newcomen´s steam engine. His new steam engine was fundamental for the Industrial Revolution.

James Watt

500

An empirical or experimental method for acquiring knowledge that characterize the develop of science since the 17th century

The scientific method

500

A Girondine spy who killed Marat, an importan Jacobine politician.

Charlotte Corday

500

Rococo was replaced by a more serious style. Which one?

Neoclassicism

500

In Spanish we call the game that represents this Rococo painting "La gallinita ciega". Say its English title and author.

"Blind Man´s Bluff" by Jean Honoré Fragonard.

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