Apologia General Science
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| Science | 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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| Imhotep | ancient Egyptian scientist who was known for his knowledge of medicine
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| papyrus | a primitive form of paper, made from a long-leafed plant of the same name
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| Thales | an ancient Greek scientist who is considered the first real scientist, who studied the heavens to understand how planets and stars move
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| Anaximander | an ancient Greek scientist who studied life and was the first to try to explain the origin of human life without a creator
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| Leucippus | an ancient Greek scientist who was the first to say that all things are made of small particles called "atoms"; the father of atomic theory
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| density | a term that describes how tightly atoms are packed in any given substance
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| Aristotle | an ancient Greek scientist who is called the father of life sciences
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| spontaneous generation | the idea that living organisms can be spontaneously formed from non-living substances
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| Archimedes | an ancient Greek scientist who was the first to use mathematics to understand how things happened the way they did
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| Ptolemy | an ancient Greek scientist who came up with the geocentric system of the heavens
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| geocentric system | the belief that the earth is the center of the universe and that all things orbit around it
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| Ptolemaic system | another name for the geocentric system
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