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24 Cards in this Set
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Imhotep
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Egyptain medicine of moldy bread and poppy seeds
Papyrus |
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Thales, Anaximaner, Anaximenes
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The first real scientists
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Leucippus and Democritus
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Greek scientists
Atoms |
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Aristotle
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famous Greek scientist supported by Alexander the Great
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Archimedes
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Fluids
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Ptolemy
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Greek
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Grosseteste
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Father of the Scientific Method
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Nicolaus Copericus
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The Roman Catholic Church denounced his work and prohibited people from reading his work.
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Andreas Vesalius
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Details of the Human Body
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Johannes Kepler
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Detailed observation of the planets. His "laws" supported the heliocentric model.
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Galileo Galilei
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Telescope
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Blaise Pascal
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Pascal's Law-atmospheric pressure
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Sir Isaac Newton
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Universal Law of Gravitation
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Robert Boyle
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Founder of Modern Chemistry
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Antoni Leeuwenhoek
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microscope
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Carolus Linnaeus
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classification
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Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier
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combustion and Law of Mass Conservation
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Charles Darwin
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Evolution
Origin of Species |
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Louis Pasteur
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pasteurization
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Gregor Mendel
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genetics
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James Clerk Maxwell
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electromagnetism
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James Joule
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First Law of Thermodynamics
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Albert Einstein
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quantum mechanics
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Niels Bohr
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Bohr's Model
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