Science

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Science

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An endeavor dedicated to the accumulation & classification of observable facts

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Papyrus

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Ancient form of paper made from a plant

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Spontaneous Generation

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living organisms can be formed from non living substances

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Imhotep

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Egyptian Dr 2650 BC

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Thales

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First real scientist. predicted solar eclipse

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Anaximander

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Thales pupil, study of life, Life began in the sea, humans are some sort of fish

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Anaximenes

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Associate of Anaxiander, Air most basic substance, everything made of air, ideas led to discovery of atom

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Leucippus

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Greek scientist, Daddy of Atomic Theory

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Democritus

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Leucippus' student, all matter similar to sand

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density

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how tightly packed matter in a substance is

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Aristotle

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Father of life science, classification of animals and plants, spontaneous generation

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Alexander the Great

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Gathered plant and animal samples from all over the world for classification

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Archimedes

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Mathematics and science combined to explain why things happen

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Ptolemy

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Studied sky and stars, earth is the center of the universe, geocentric system or ptolematic system

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Alchemy

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lead to gold

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dark ages

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little was learned at this time 500ad-1000ad

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Robert Grosseteste

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father of scientific method

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Dietrich Von Freiberg

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Priest who solved the mystery of the rainbow

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Roger Bacon

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science can support Christianity

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Thomas Bradwardine

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Used Math and experiments to disprove aristotle

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Nicholas Cusa

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studied plants and stars first to break away from Ptolemy's geocentric view

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Nicolaus Copernicus

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believed the planets revolved around the sun Heliocentric system

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Andreas Vesalius

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wrote a boook showing with great detail the human body including the insides

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Johannes kepler

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used math to prove the planets revolve around the sun in ovals

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Galileo

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made a telescope studied the stars proved that light coming from Venus went through fases like the moon

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Pascal

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atmospheric pressure

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Sir Issac Newton

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2 laws of Motion, universal law of gravitation, Calculus,white Light composed of manydlifferent colors of light Greatest Scientist in History

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Robert Boyl

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founder of modern Chemistry

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Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek

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first microscope

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Carolus Linnaes

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classify living things

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Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

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Law of mass conservation, explained combustion

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John Dalton

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Atomic Theory

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Charles Darwin

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Father of EvolutionThe origin of species, destroyed idea of immutability of the species, and natural selection

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Louis Pasteur

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destroyed idea of spontanious generation, pasturization, vaccines

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Sir charles lyell

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earth is millions of years old

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Gregor Mendel

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Modern Genetics

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Michael Faraday

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The electrical giant

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James Maxwell

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electromagnetism

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James Joule

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The First law of Thermodynamics

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Max Planck

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energy exists in tiny packets called quanta, quantum mechanics

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Albert Einstein

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general theory of relativity, special theory of relativity, photoelectric effect

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Neils Bohr

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mathematical description of the atom