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25 Cards in this Set
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Brahe |
Moon and Sun orbit Earth; other planets orbit Sun |
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Lavoisier |
Law of Conservation of Mass; role of oxygen in combustion reactions; stoichiometry |
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Aristotle |
Geocentrism with crystal spheres, taught by Catholic Church in Middle Ages and early Renaissance |
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Newton |
Universal law of gravitation; 3 Laws of Motion; physics |
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Ptolemy |
Geocentrism with epicycles |
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Copernicus |
Heliocentrism, ideas rejected by Catholic Church after his death |
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Kepler |
Eliptical planetary orbits with variable speeds |
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Galen |
Bodily humours, prevailing philosophy for medicine and biology through Middle Ages |
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Descartes |
"I think, therefore I am"; modern rationalism |
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Bacon |
Scientific Method |
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Vesalius |
Anatomy; wrote "On the Fabric of the Human Body" |
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Boyle |
Boyle's Law- inverse relationship between volume and absolute pressure of gases. First True Chemist. Early practicioner of Scientific Method. |
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Benedetti |
Studied gravity. Falling objects' speeds are not proportional to their weights. |
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Harvey |
Continuous circulatory system; wrote "On the Motion of the Heart and Blood" |
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Celsius |
Metric temp. unit created by Swede Anders Celsius in the late 1720's |
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Fahrenheit |
Imperial temp. unit, created by German Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit in 1714 |
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Tartaglia |
Terminal velocity, ballistic trajectory, cubic equations |
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Law of Planetary Motion |
Johannes Kepler |
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Scientific Method |
Sir Francis Bacon |
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Starry Messenger |
Galileo Galilei |
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On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres |
Nicolaus Copernicus |
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Universal Law of Gravitation |
Sir Isaac Newton |
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On the Fabric of the Human Body |
Andreas Vesalius |
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On the Motion of the Heart and Blood |
William Harvey |
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Leeuwenhoek |
Improved microscopes, early microbiologist |
