In Theory (The Origins of Science)
These two Chinese forces combine to affect a person's behavior
What are yin and yang?
The first Nobel Prize for the discovery of a drug was given to Alexander Fleming, Howard Florey, and Ernst Chain for the discovery of this antibiotic?
What is penicillin?
Galileo used a telescope to discover that this planet, like Jupiter, had moons which later turned out to be its rings.
What is Saturn?
This famous physicist is known for his three laws of motion.
Who is Isaac Newton?
This greenhouse gas was discovered by Steven Hale and was originally called "fixed air."
What is carbon dioxide?
Many "scientists" of the Middle Ages actually worked as clergymen or this profession.
What is a doctor?
The Hippocratics believed that diseases were caused by these elements in our bodies.
What are humours?
This Polish scientist studied the heavens from his roofless tower and created one of the first models of the solar system.
Who is Nicholas Copernicus?
Isaac Newton studied the highs and lows of these to better understand gravity.
What are tides?
This is the name given to a substance that cannot be broken down any further by chemical experiments.
What is an element?
This ancient philosopher created the theory that everything was composted of four elements - earth, air, fire, and water.
Who is Aristotle?
The first ever vaccination was created by experimenting with cows and this contagious disease that covers the infected with horrible spots.
What is smallpox?
William Herschel accidently discovered this planet while observing the stars. He named it after a character in Greek mythology.
What is Uranus?
Michael Faraday was the first scientist to convert electrical energy into this type of energy which provides movement.
What is mechanical energy?
Organic compounds differ from inorganic compounds because they refer to living things and contain this element.
What is carbon?
The Ancient Greeks used these objects to magnetize needles to create the first compasses.
What are lodestones?
German doctor Paul Ehrlich created a drug to treat syphilis that contained this type of poison.
What is arsenic?
This successor of Tycho Brahe has three laws of astronomy named after him.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
William Thomson invented this temperature scale that has no negative numbers and is often referred to as the K scale.
What is the Kelvin scale?
When the periodic table was first created, Mendeleev was missing several elements including this entire column.
What are the noble gases?
The Big Three included Euclid, Eratosthenes, and this scientist who wrote about music, geography, and the nature of light.
Who is Ptolemy?
What is the autoclave?
This American astronomer had a space telescope named for him and is known for discovering that our Milky Way is just the beginning of the universe.
Who is Edwin Hubble?
Paul Dirac coined this term for a positively charged electron.
What is a positron?
This word refers to atoms of the same element that have different atomic weights.
What are isotopes?