Module 1: History of Science

Question 1

Who was Thales?

Answer 1

A scientist who tried to move planets or stars.

Question 2

Who was Anaximander?

Answer 2

Believed people came from the sea-turned human

Question 3

Who was Anaximenes?

Answer 3

Believed all things were constructed by air

Question 4

What is science?

Answer 4

General law explanation of how the world works?

Question 5

Papyrus

Answer 5

A plant that was used as a form of paper

Question 6

Spontaneous Generation

Answer 6

Living things came from non living things

Question 7

Who was Imhotep?

Answer 7

An Egyptian scientist of medicine

Question 8

Leucippus and student Democritus

Answer 8

All matter is made up of atoms

Question 9

Who came up with the idea of Spontaneous Generation (living things can come from non living things)?

Answer 9

Aristotle

Question 10

Who came up with the first classification for living creatures?

Answer 10

Aristotle

Question 11

What is the difference between geocentric and the heliocentric system?

Answer 11

In the geocentric system, the earth sits at the center of the universe and does not move. The heliocentric system is when the sun is still and the planets travel around it.

Question 12

What was the main goal of the alchemists?

Answer 12

They wanted to find the ingredients for gold.

Question 13

Why don’t we consider the alchemists to be scientists?

Answer 13

Because they never used what they found to explain the world around them.

Question 14

What was the main reason that science progressed near the end of the Dark Ages?

Answer 14

The Roman Catholic Church made an influence in continuing advancing in medical treatment.

Question 15

Who is considered the first modern scientist and why?

Answer 15

Grosseteste is the first modern scientist because he was the first to work with the scientific method.

Question 16

What were the two great works that were published in 1543. Who were the authors and what were their subjects?

Answer 16

Nicolaus Copernicus -He wrote about the heliocentric system in which the sun was the center of everything and that the planets (and earth) traveled around the sun.

Andreas Vesalius- He wrote about the illustrations of the human body.

Question 17

Although Galileo collected an enormous amount of data to support the heliocentric theory, he was forced to publicly deny it. Why?

Answer 17

The Roman Catholic Church did NOT believe the same thing as Galileo and so he was forced to deny his heliocentric view. He was forced to say it was not true.

Question 18

What was the military device that someone gave Galileo instructions to build?

Answer 18

The telescope.

Question 19

Who was sir Issac Newton?

Answer 19

Sir Issac Newton was the guy who invented calculus. He created the laws of motion. He established a link between science and math.

Question 20

What was the good and the bad changes in the enlightenment period?

Answer 20

Good: they stopped relying on past scientists and gathered their own data. Bad: they began to ignore the authority of the Bible.

Question 21

What was Lavoisier’s greatest contribute to science?

Answer 21

He was the first to study chemical reactions.

Question 22

what is John Dalton remembered for.

Answer 22

He did experiments with gases.m

Question 23

What is Charles Darwin remembered for?

Answer 23

Writing a book called the origin species.

Question 24

What does “immutability of species” mean and who showed that this notion is wrong?

Answer 24

Living creatures that stayed the same throughout history. -Charles Darwin

Question 25

What is Gregory Mendel remembered by?

Answer 25

He was remembered because he studied reproduction, and genetics.

Question 26

James clerk Maxwell is known as the founder of modern_________

Answer 26

Physics

Question 27

What law did James Joule demonstrate to be true?

Answer 27

First law of thermodynamics (energy cannot be created or destroyed)

Question 28

What is the basic assumption of quantum mechanics?

Answer 28

(Max plank) Matter exist in tiny packets called Adams.

Question 29

Who is Niels Bohr remembered for?

Answer 29

He developed a picture for an atom.

Question 30

Albert Einstein was one of the founders of the mechanical revolution what other ideas is he famous for?

Answer 30

Special theory of relativity, and the general theory of relativity.