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| Thales (c.624 B.C.--c.547 B.C) | show 🗑
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| Anaximander (c.610 B.C--c.546 B.C.) | show 🗑
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| show | Thought numbers were divine; all things made up of numbers.
Central Fire.
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| Leucippus | show 🗑
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| show | First to attempt classification and understanding of living things; biology.
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| Aristarchus (c.310 B.C.--c.230 B.C.) | show 🗑
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| show | Invented war devices; catapult.
Discoveries in math and geometry.
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| show | Islamic mathematician, theorist, experimenter.
Claimed objects emanated light.
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| show | Heliocentric model.
Circular orbits.
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| show | First to observe sunspots, rotation of Sun, mountains and depressions on moon, Jupiter's moons.
Proved heliocentric model.
Designed thermometer, geometric and military compass.
Founded scientific study of motion and gravity.
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| Johannes Kepler (1571--1630) | show 🗑
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| Antony van Leeuwenhoek (1632--1723) | show 🗑
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| show | Differential calculus.
Three laws of motion.
Theory of universal gravitation.
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| show | Contributions to language, history, theology, education, natural philosophy.
Had one of the best-equipped chemical labs in the world.
Generated air; "dephlogisticated air."
Discovered photosynthesis.
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| show | Discovered six chemical elements.
Developed anesthetic; nitrous oxide ("laughing gas").
Discovered elements cannot be decomposed by chemical reactions.
Invented miner's safety lamp.
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| Charles Babbage (1792--1852) | show 🗑
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| show | Created first program.
Worked with Charles Babbage.
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| Charles Darwin (1809--1882) | show 🗑
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| show | Laws of heredity.
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| Dmitri Mendeleev (1834--1907) | show 🗑
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| show | Discovered the elements polonium and radium.
First woman to win a Nobel Prize.
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| show | Discovered quantum physics.
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| show | Wireless communication; telegraphy.
First to send wireless signals across the Atlantic.
Used long-wave, then short wavelengths.
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