History of Science Flashcards
The first invention for transporting people was probably the?
Canoe
Between 12000 and 2000 years ago people learned how to farm plants and animals. This was a huge leap. This was known as the
Agricultural revolution
This ancient skull has several carefully bored holes made during a type of early surgey called
Trepanation
How is the father of medicine
Hippocrates
The ancient greek thinker Aristotle said theta OBSERVATION and EXPERIMENT are the only reliable ways to find things out, this idea is known as
Empiricism
The first person known to have tried to measure the earth was?
ERATOSTHENES
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?
Antikythera
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
Armillary Sphere
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?
Hypathia
The study of Light is known as?
optics
Who first said that the earth moves around the sun
Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus
Who was the first to describe the force of Gravity
Isaac Newton
This German scientist made detailed drawings studying the life cycles of insects that lived in Surinam, south America
Name this scientist
Maria Sybilla Merian
This Swedish scientist developed a system that gave a UNIQUE LATIN NAME to each living thing,
Name this scientist
Carl Linnaeus
This jar is used to to store electricity, name it
Leyden jar
Name this French scientist who is known as the FATHER OF CHEMISTRY
Antoine Lavoisier
Father of Modern Chemistry
Antoine Lavoisier
What was Antoine Lavoisiers first profession
Lawyer
In the 1700s the best scientists of France belonged to which organization
The Royal Academy of Sciences
Lavoisiers First paper read at The Royal Academy of Science at age 22 was on
A Mineral called Gypsum
Who was Antoine Lavoisiers wife
Marie Anne
Who discovered Carbon Dioxide
Joseph Black
Who discovered Oxygen
Joseph Priestly
Who discovered Hydrogen
Henry Cavendish
What fraction of the common air is made of oxygen
1/5th
Coldest form of matter is solid
Solids
What was the PHLOGISTON Theory
All substances that burn contain a imaginary substance called phlogiston. And on burning the Pholgiston escapes
