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HISTORY OF SCIENCE Flashcards

1
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broke with the traditional belief that the earth was at the center of the
universe.

A

Copernicus

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2
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rejected the older alchemical & medical theories & founded iatrochemistry
(medical chemistry)

A

Paracelsus

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3
Q

turned away the teaching of Galen & through his anatomical studies
helped found modern medicine & biology

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Andreas Vesalius

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4
Q

who urged that the experimental method plays a key role in scientific
theories.

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Francis Bacon

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5
Q

who held that the universe is a mechanical system that can be described in
mathematical terms

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Rene Descartes

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6
Q

who also made improvements in the telescope

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Christians Huygens

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7
Q

used the findings of others to develop a unified view of the forces of the
universe. Newtons study of lenses & prisms laid the foundation for the
modern study of optics.

A

Isaac Newton

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8
Q

independently developed a new system of mathematics calculus

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Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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9
Q

began the modern Physiology

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William Harvey

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10
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pioneered the used or microscope to study he fine structures of plants

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Robert Hooke

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11
Q

introduced many new ways of identifying the chemical composition or
substances

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Robert Boyle

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12
Q

discovered X-ray 1895

A

Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen

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13
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radioactivity in 1896

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Antoine Henry Becquerel

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14
Q

radium in 1898

A

Pierre and Marie Curie

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15
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psychoanalysis in 1900

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Sigmund Freud

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16
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discovered the theory of quanta in 1901

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Max Planck

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17
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theory of mutations in 1901- 1903

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Hugo de Vries

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18
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special and general theories of relativity in 1905- 1916

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Albert Einstein

19
Q

disintegration of atom in 1919

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Baron Rutherford

20
Q

the first man to introduce history of science in a broader
context & to increase its circulation in his Course of Positive Philosophy.

A

Auguste Comte

21
Q

the real inheritor of Comte's thought & the first great teacher of the history of science. During his time, the history of science became a full-pledged discipline.

A

Paul Tannery

22
Q

Astronomer- predicted
eclipse of the sun in 585 B.C.
Geometry of circles

A

Thales OF Miletus

23
Q

Cartography, Obliquity of the
ecliptic

A

Anaximander

24
Q

Laws of conservation of
matter and energy

A

Anaximenes

25
Q

Relations between sides of
right angled triangle
Tone vibrations

A

Pythagoras of Crotona

26
Q

Metonic Cycle

A

Metons of Athens

27
Q

Synagouge – ancient Greek
mathematics

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Pappus of Alexandria

28
Q

Atomic Theory

A

Democritus

29
Q

Father of Medicine

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Hippocrates of Cos

30
Q

Planetary Motion Theory

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Exodus of Cnidus

31
Q

Classified plants and animals

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Aristotle

32
Q

Human dissection, brain as the center of thought and divides the nervous system

A

Herophilus of Alexandria

33
Q

Globe

A

Crates of Males

34
Q

Flow of liquids and gases,
instrument to show expansion
of air

A

Philon of Byzantium

35
Q

First Greek Treatise on
Medicine

A

Diocles

36
Q

Systematized Geometry

A

Euclid

37
Q

Conic Section (Geometry)

A

Apollonius of Pegra

38
Q

Area of Circle, Principles of
Lever, Screw, Buoyancy

A

Archimedes

39
Q

Made the first measurement
of the size of Earth

A

Eratosthenes

40
Q

Size of Earth, Climate

A

Theodorus of Samus

41
Q

Pattern of cosmos, latitude,
longitude, triangular measure

A

Hipparchus of Rhodes

42
Q

Ptolemaic System,
Mathematics, Geography,
Optics

A

Ptolemy

43
Q

Calendar reform

A

Julius Ceazar, Sosigenes

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