Newton
The age that Newton entered college.
What is 19?
He used the precise length of a pendulum beating at 1 second at 45 degrees latitude in the middle of France to pioneer the metric system.
Who is Talleyrand
The language of the scientific world.
What is mathematics?
The name of his great written work.
What is Principia?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
System designed to treat all fractional units as integers.
What is the decimal system?
What is light?
He measured the eye of a louse to between 1/250th and 1/400th of an inch.
Who is Leeuwnhoek?
A catalogue of plants and their uses.
What is an herbal?
The grand unifying force in Newton's system of all of the physical phenomena of the earth.
What is mathematics?
The ancient Greek surgeon who recorded descriptions of botany in De materia medica.
Who is Dioscorides?
A way to calculate velocities and rates of change.
What is calculus?
Newton's archenemy in the battle over inventing the differential calculus.
Who is Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz?
The Father of Bibliography
A word taken from the Latin "specere" meaning to "look or see".
What is specimen?