Vocabulary
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| Density | (p.6)How tightly atoms are packed in a substance.
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| Geocentric | (pp.10-11)The thought that the earth was at the center of the universe.
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| Heliocentric | (p.19)The thought that the sun is at the center of everything and assumed that all of the planets, including earth traveled around the sun.
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| Robert Grosseteste | (p.17)Father of the scientific method, considered the first modern scientist.
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| Papyrus | (p.2)A primitive form of paper, made from a long-leafed plant of the same name.
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| Ptolemy | (pp.10-11)Thought the earth was the center of the universe and the planets and stars orbited about the earth in a series of circles. Also called the Ptolemaic system or geocentric system.
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| Leucippus and Democritus | (p.4)Ancient Greek scientists who proposed all matter was really made of little units called "atoms".
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| Aristotle | (pp.8-9)Father of life sciences also believed in spontaneous generation.
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| Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes | (p.4)Viewed as first real scientists.
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| Johannes Kepler | (p.20)Used mathematical data to support the heliocentric system and found the oval or ellipse pattern the planets traveled around the sun.
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| Alchemy | (p. 12)A way by which lead (or other inexpensive substance) could be transformed into gold (or other precious substances).
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| Nicolaus Copernicus | (p.19)Believed the sun was at the center of everything and assumed that all of the plants traveled around the sun. Also called the heliocentric system or Copernican system.
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| Classification | (p.8)Ordering facts in a reasonable and systematic way.
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| Spontaneous generation | (p.9)The idea that living organisms can be spontaneously formed from non-living substances.
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| Science | (p.1)A branch of study dedicated to the accumulation and classification of observable facts in order to formulate general laws about the natural world.
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