vocabulary
The systematic study of natural world through observation and experimentation in order to formulate general rules
science
Who discovered that moldy bread could heal people and called it penicillin
Imhotep
The scientist who worked with mathematics and applied math formulas to explain why things happen the way they do.
Archimedes
Lousis Pasteur came up with a process that sterilized bacteria from liquids so they wouldn't spoil. what is that process called?
Pasteurization
He made a telescope build from 2 lenses that could magnify things from very far away
Galileo
What is the ancient form of paper made from a plant of the same name
what is papyrus
Who was the first scientist to study the sky and stars and planets and tried to discover how all their movements worked.
Thales
Wrote works on philosophy, math, logics, and physics. Best known for his work classifying animals.
Aristotle
developed a picture of an atom
Neils Bohr
was an australian monk who studied the reproduction of plants. He studied how genetics were passed down from parents through plants.
George Mendel
An educated guess
hypothesis
who was the first scientist to study living organisms and tried to describe the human race without a creator
Anaximander
Invented the scientific method and wanted to know why you were doing an experiment
Robert Grosseteste
Darwinism refers to the natural selection. If an organism was too weak or not smart they would die. what scientist coined this theory.
Charles Darwin
The scientist who wrote about 3 laws of motion that changed physics
Issac Newton
the idea that living organisms can be spontaneously formed from nonliving substances.
spontaneous generation
Proposed that everything was made up of atoms
Leucippus
realized that the earth spins on an axis and that Earth spins around the sun. Thought god was infinite.
Nicolas of Cusa
The name of the 3 volumes Newton wrote
Principia
studied how fluid behaved and also demonstrated that the air we breath exerts pressure
Blaise Pascal
what happened when you did the experiment
results
Studied the heavens and was one of the first to attempt a complete description of the planets and stars. He assumed that Earth was the center of the universe and everything orbited around Earth
Ptolemy
developed a theory to prove Ptolemy's wrong and published works that described the planets and stars orbiting around the sun. His theory had the sun as the center of the solar system
Nicolaus Copernicus
As science ignores the past it also ignores the what?
bible
founder of modern day chemistry
Robert Boyle