People
Founder of Modern Physics
James Clerk Maxwell
Discovered the Law of Mass Conservation
Lavoisier
Championed idea of Spontaneous Generation
Aristotle
Best known for his model of the atom, named after him.
Bohr
An endeavor dedicated to the accumulation and classification of observable facts to make laws about the natural world
SCIENCE
One of the first Scientists
Thales
Destroyed the idea of the Immutability of Species
Darwin
Laid down the laws of motion, developed law of gravity and invented Calculus
Newton
We should believe scientific ideas because of this, not because of the people that believe in them.
Evidence
An ancient form of paper, made from a plant
Papyrus
Gathered data for the Heliocentric System but forced to recant it
Galileo
Ancient Greek who believed in Atoms
Democritus
Studied how traits are passed on during reproduction; Father of Genetics
Mendel
Alchemy
The idea that living organisms can be spontaneously formed from non-living substances
Spontaneous Generation
Proposed the Geocentric System
Ptolemy
Considered the First Modern Scientist
Grosseteste
Demonstrated the Fist Law of Thermodynamics
Joule
Alchemists were not scientists because they worked strictly by these 2 strategies:
Trial and error
The progress of science depends also on these 2 things, not just the work of earlier scientists.
government and culture
Had two theories of relativity and liked quantum mechanics
Einstein
Proposed the Heliocentric System
Copernicus
Developed the First Detailed Atomic Theory, became father of modern atomic theory
Dalton
The idea that energy comes in little packets is the central theme in this modern scientific theory.
Theory of Quantum Mechanics
This worldview caused science to progress at the end of the Dark Ages.
The Christian Worldview