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