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Inventors Flashcards

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Blaise Pascal

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17th century mathematician, theologian, philosopher; invented calculating machine

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Gottfried Leibniz

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17th-18th century mathematician, discovered calculus (as well as Isaac Newton); invented later calculator

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Copernicus

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(1473-1543) 1st to discover sun=center of universe

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Marie Curie

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19th century chemist and physicist

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Galileo

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(1564-1642) Astronomist, theologian, philosophist; inventor of telescope

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Gottlieb Daimler

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(1834-1900) one of the early inventors of automobile

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