History of Science Flashcards

1
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The first invention for transporting people was probably the?

A

Canoe

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Between 12000 and 2000 years ago people learned how to farm plants and animals. This was a huge leap. This was known as the

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Agricultural revolution

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3
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This ancient skull has several carefully bored holes made during a type of early surgey called

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Trepanation

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4
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How is the father of medicine

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Hippocrates

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5
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The ancient greek thinker Aristotle said theta OBSERVATION and EXPERIMENT are the only reliable ways to find things out, this idea is known as

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Empiricism

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6
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The first person known to have tried to measure the earth was?

A

ERATOSTHENES

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7
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This ancient greek machine made of complex interlocking cogs was used for predicting the movement of the plantes and is sometimes described as the first analogue computer?

A

Antikythera

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8
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This instrument invented in ancient Greece and china was used to calculated the position of the sun and the stars in relation to the earth

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Armillary Sphere

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9
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Name the famous mathematician and thinker from Alexandria, Egypt, where she taught various subjects including astronomy. She was killed by an angry mob, no one knows why?

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Hypathia

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10
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The study of Light is known as?

A

optics

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11
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Who first said that the earth moves around the sun

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Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus

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12
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Who was the first to describe the force of Gravity

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Isaac Newton

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13
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This German scientist made detailed drawings studying the life cycles of insects that lived in Surinam, south America

Name this scientist

A

Maria Sybilla Merian

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14
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This Swedish scientist developed a system that gave a UNIQUE LATIN NAME to each living thing,

Name this scientist

A

Carl Linnaeus

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15
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This jar is used to to store electricity, name it

A

Leyden jar

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16
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Name this French scientist who is known as the FATHER OF CHEMISTRY

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Antoine Lavoisier

17
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Father of Modern Chemistry

A

Antoine Lavoisier

18
Q

What was Antoine Lavoisiers first profession

A

Lawyer

19
Q

In the 1700s the best scientists of France belonged to which organization

A

The Royal Academy of Sciences

20
Q

Lavoisiers First paper read at The Royal Academy of Science at age 22 was on

A

A Mineral called Gypsum

21
Q

Who was Antoine Lavoisiers wife

A

Marie Anne

22
Q

Who discovered Carbon Dioxide

A

Joseph Black

23
Q

Who discovered Oxygen

A

Joseph Priestly

24
Q

Who discovered Hydrogen

A

Henry Cavendish

25
Q

What fraction of the common air is made of oxygen

A

1/5th

26
Q

Coldest form of matter is solid

A

Solids

27
Q

What was the PHLOGISTON Theory

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All substances that burn contain a imaginary substance called phlogiston. And on burning the Pholgiston escapes