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Apologia Exploring Creation with General Science Module 1

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Science   An 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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Papyrus   An ancient form of paper, made from a plant of the same name  
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Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes   Viewed as the first real scientists  
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Leucippus, Democritus   Ancient Greek scientists who proposed all matter was really made of little units called "atoms"  
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Density   How tightly packed the matter in a substance is.  
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Classification   Ordering facts in a reasonable and systematic way.  
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Spontaneous generation   The idea that living organisms can be spontaneously formed from non-living substances.  
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Aristotle   Father of life sciences - also believed in spontaneous generation  
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Ptolemy   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 geocentri system and does not move.  
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Grosseteste   Father of the scientific method  
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Heliocentric   The thought that the sun is at the center of everything and assumption that all of the planets, including the earth, travel around the sun.  
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Kepler   Used mathematical data to support the heliocentric system and found the oval or ellipse pattern the planets use to travel around the sun.  
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Galileo   Collected evidence to support the heliocentric view, even though the Roman Catholic church forced him to stop officially promoting the view.  
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Sir Isaac Newton   One of the greatest scientists of all time.  
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Laid down 3 laws of motion, laws of gravity, developed calculus and showed white light is composed of many different colors of light.    
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Boyle   Founder of modern Chemistry  
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Antoine Laurent Lavoisier   Discovered the Law of Mass Conservation  
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Law of Mass Conservation   Matter cannot be created or destroyed. It can only change form.  
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John Dalton   Founder of modern atomic theory.  
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Charles Darwin   Known for his Theory of Evolution which explains how we got here withour reference to a Creator.  
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Wrote "The Origin of the Species"    
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Immutability of the species   The mistaken idea that living creatures cannot change.  
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Louis Pasteur   Developed Pasteurization.  
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Destroyed the idea of spontaneous generation and was know for his work with vaccines.    
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Gregor Mendel   Know for her study of reproduction or genetics  
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James Maxwell   Founder of Modern Pyhsics  
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Joule   Came up with the First Law of Thermodynamics  
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First Law of Thermodynamics   Energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can only change forms.  
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Niels Bohr   Developed a picture of the atom and even had a model named after him.  
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Albert Einstein   Known for his Theory of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics.  
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