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34 Cards in this Set
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Proposed the geocentric theory
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Ptolomy
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Believed that all life began in the sea
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Anaximander
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Collected data supporting the heliocentric theory using a telescope but had to recant it.
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Galileo
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One of the first scientists
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Thales
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Disproved many of Aristotle's ideas
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Bradwardine
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Believed all things were contructed of air
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Anaximenes
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Developed the idea of spontaneous generation
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Aristotle
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Destroyed the idea of the immutability of species and introduced evolution.
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Darwin
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Father of atomic theory
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Leucippus
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Built the microscope
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van Leeuwenhoek
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The first to break from the geocentric view of the universe
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Nicholas of Cusa
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Destroyed the idea of spontaneous generation and introduced the vaccines.
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Pasteur
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Demonstrated what we now call atmospheric pressure
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Pascal
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Realized that matter cannot be created or destroyed and that it only changes forms.
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Lavoisier
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Considered the first modern scientist and the father of the scientific method
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Grosseteste
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Said that the earth took millions of years to form
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Lyell
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His work showed that planets don't travel around the sun in circles
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Kepler
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The founder of modern physics
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Maxwell
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Solved the mystery of the rainbow
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Von Freiberg
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The founder of modern chemistry
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Boyle
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Student of Grosseteste and advocated his work
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Bacon
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Developed the model of the atom.
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Bohr
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Developed the heliocentric system
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Copernicus
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Developed the Three Laws of Motion and considered the greatest scientist of all
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Newton
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Wrote the first book that illustrated all the insides of the human body
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Vesalius
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Known as the electrical giant
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Faraday
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Best known for his work with fluids
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Archimedes
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Developed the classification of all living things
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Linnaeus
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Believed that all matter is made of atoms
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Democritus
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Developed the First Law of Thermodynamics
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Joule
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Developed two theories of relativity.
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Einstein
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His work was the basis for genetics
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Mendel
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Proposed that energy exists in small packets or quanta.
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Planck
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The founder of the modern atomic theory
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Dalton
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