The Renaissance: The Golden age of Science 1500- 1660AD
The Era of Newton 1660 AD to 1735 AD
The Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution 1735 AD-1820 AD
The Rest of the 19th Century 1820 AD-1900AD
Modern Science 1900 AD to the present
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Another name for the heliocentric system (of the solar system.)
What is the Copernican system
100
An entirely new mathematical field that Newton developed
What is calculus
100
In 1735 he published a book in which he tried to classify all living creatures that had been studied.
Who is Carolus Linnaeus
100
He showed that living organisms can adapt to changes in their surroundings through a process he called natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin
100
He proposed the idea that energy exists in tiny packets called quanta
Who is Max Planck
200
His data showed that planets really don't travel around the sun in circles. who is he and what path do the planets travel?
Who is Johannes Kepler, the planets travel in an ellipse
200
In the first volume of this three volume set, Newton laid down his three laws of motion
What is the "Principia"
200
He was the first to realize that matter cannot be created or destroyed, it can only change forms.
Who is Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier
200
His work helped keep milk and wine from souring. He also laid the foundation for most of todays vaccines.
Who is Louis Pasteur
200
This entirely new way of looking at energy and matter was formed because of Max Planck's ideas
What is quantum mechanics
300
He demonstrated that planets do not shine on their own and that they appear as lights in the night sky simply because they reflect the light of the sun.
Who is Galilei
300
This is what Newton talked about in his second volume and third volume
What is 1. understanding the motion of fluids
2. Universal law of gravity
300
He proposed a detailed theory about atoms and although a few of his ideas were wrong, most were right. He is considered the founder of the modern atomic theory.
Who is John Dalton
300
He broke with the scientific view at the time and postulated that the earth took millions of years to form.
Who is Charles Lyell
300
He used Planck's law of quanta to explain the "photoelectric effect" which could not be explained by Newton's laws
Who is Albert Einstein
400
1.He demonstrated that the air we breathe exerts pressure on everything.
2. what we call this effect.
1.Who is Blaise Pascal
2. what is Air pressure
400
He was the founder of modern Chemistry
Who is Robert Boyle
400
matter cannot be created or destroyed (what law)
What is the law of Mass Conservation
400
This man was the founder of modern genetics and
This man was the founder of modern physics.
Who were Gregor Mendel and James Clark Maxwell
400
He developed a picture of an atom that was based on solid mathematics and it required the assumption that energy comes in small packets.
Who is Niels Bohr
500
He published a book in 1543 detailing the human body
Who is Andreas Vesalius
500
He revolutionized the study of life by building the first microscope
Who is Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
500
Increased scientific knowledge led to the invention of many devices that turned hours of manual labor into just a few minutes of work This the name for this time in history.
What is the industrial revolution
500
Building on the work of Lavoisier, he determined that like matter, energy can not be created or destroyed this was called the First law of _________
Who is James Joules and first law of thermodynamics
500
This is what is stated by Einstein's famous E=mc(squared)
What is matter can be converted to energy and energy can be converted to matter