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50 Cards in this Set
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Aristotle |
Known as The Philosopher |
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Thomas Aquinas |
Combined Aristotle's ideas and roman catholic ideas |
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Francis Bacon |
The english philosopher who helped design the Scientific method |
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Nicolaus Copernicus |
Created the heliocentric theory |
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Johannes Kepler |
Came up with the three laws of planetary motion |
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Galileo |
Designed and built a telescope |
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Isaac Newton |
Contributed more to the scientific progress more than anyone before of now |
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John Wilkins |
Formed the Royal society |
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Albert Einstein
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Remembered for sating the theories of relativity |
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Andreas Vesalius |
The Father of Anatomy |
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William Harvey |
Described the Circulation of the blood |
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Charles Darwin |
Known for the Theory of relativity |
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Charles Lyell |
Wrote the Priciples of Geology, believed in the principle of uniformity |
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Jethro Tull |
invented the seed drill |
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John Deere |
invented the steel plow |
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Cyrus McCormick |
Invented the Reaper |
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John Kay |
Invented the flying shuttle |
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James Hargreaves |
Invented the spinning jenny |
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Richard Arkwright |
Invented the water frame |
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Eli Whitney |
Invented the cotton gin |
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James Watt |
Invented an efficient coal-burning steam engine |
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Sir Humphrey Davy |
Invented the saftey lamp |
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Henry Bessemer |
Discovered a cheap way to convert iron to steel |
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Robert Fulton |
Built the Clermont, invented the first steamboat |
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George Stephenson |
Opened the world's first public steam powered railroad |
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Gottlieb Daimler |
Developed the gas fueled internal combustion engine |
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Samuel Morse |
Perfected the electric telegraph, known for the Morse code |
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Cyrus Field |
Laid the first successful transatlantic telegraph cable |
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Alexander Graham Bell |
Invented the first telephone |
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Thomas Edison |
Great inventor, invented =hundreds of things |
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Wright Brothers |
Invented the first plane |
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Henry Ford |
Invented the Model-T and the assembly line |
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John D. Rockefeller |
He was a giant in the oil industry |
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Andrew Carnegie |
Giant in the steel industry |
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Adam Smith |
Wrote the Wealth of Nations, Early advocate of Capitalism |
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Superstittions |
False belief based on fear and ignorance |
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Astrology |
The confused idea that the stars, ratther than Christ, determine the lives of others |
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Scholastisism |
The attempt at combining Greek philosophy and Roman Catholicism |
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Physics |
The basic science of matter and energy |
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Heliocentric |
The belief that the universe revolves around the sun |
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Geocentirc |
The idea that everything revolves around the earth |
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Mathematics |
The language of science |
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Royal Society |
the first permanent scientific society of the modern age |
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Principle of Uniformity |
The idea that the present is the key to the past |
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Technology |
The practical application off science to industry |
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Subsistence Farming |
Growing enough food to feed their own families |
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Protestant Work Ethic |
Biblical teaching that God expects all men to work and that all work is a noble duty to be preformed |
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Domestic System |
work was done in private small shops |
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Factory System |
People were employed to produce manufactured goods in a systematic way for wages |
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Real Wages |
Wages compared to the cost of living |
