New Numba 1
An ancient form of paper, made from a plant of the same name
Papyrus
What invention helped Egyptian doctors easily document information, transport it to other scholars, and store it for future generations?
Papyrus
The systematic study of the natural world through observation and experimentation in order to formulate general laws.
Science
Egyptian doctors treated open wounds with this.
Moldy bread
That idea that living organisms can be spontaneously formed from non living susbatances
Spontaneous Generation
Egyptian doctor gave this substance to patients who were experiencing pain.
poppy seeds (The wicket witch of the west put Dorothy and her pals to sleep with it too...remember that scene)
True or False: Aristotle championed the idea of Spontaneous Generation and is responsible for it being believed for so long.
Yes, this is true.
Who said that Scientific Laws should be accompanied by Mathemetical Expressions?
Isaac Newton
Anaximenes tried to explain all things in nature as being made of a single substance. Later Leucippus and Democritus proposed that that all matter was composed of...
Atoms (An un-splitable thing)
The main goal of an alchemist was to turn lead in ___________.
Gold
Science began to progress at the end of the Dark Ages mainly because the ____________ worldview began to replace the Roman worldview.
Christian
The interpretation of scientific data is often dependent on the individual scientist's ___________.
worldview
Short answer: Galileo build an instrument to look into the heavens. What was it? Was he the inventor?
Telescope; No
The geocentric or Ptolemaic system is the idea that the ________ is the center of the universe.
earth
Scientific knowledge builds upon the ________ knowledge or records of earlier scientists.
prior
Charles Darwqin had two major impacts on the progress of science when he published his ideas on the origin of species: one positive and one negative. What were they?
Small adaptations; said God was not required for the origin of life.
The advancement of science not only depends upon technology but also __________ and _________.
government; culture
A scientist's __________ can affect the way he interprets it.
Beliefs
The accounts of Aristotle and Ptolemy teach us that scientists shouldn't hold onto an idea just because of a ___________, __________ or just because a brilliant scientist believes it.
preconceived notion
Louis Pasteur Conducted experiments that dealt a blow to spontaneous generation. How was this a contradiction to Darwin's theory that life doesn't require God?
Because if life doesn't generate from nothing, then Darwin's theory couldn't be true.
He studied how fluids behave
Blaise Pascal
During the Elnlightenment, science began to change. A good change was_______________. A bad change was__________________.
Not rely upon past scientist's reputations; moved away from the authority of God
He is considered the father of modern genetics.
Gregor Mendel
He is known as the father of modern atomic theory.
John Dalton
Max Plank came up with the idea that energy exists in discreet packets called ______________.
quanta