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General Science M01

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Science   An endeavor dedicated to the accumulation and classification of observable facts in order to formulate general laws about the natural world.  
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Imhotep   Renowned for his knowledge of medicine  
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Papyrus   An ancient form of paper, made from a plant of the same name.  
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Thales   One of the first scientists who studied the heavens  
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Anaximander   First scientist who tried to explain the origin of life without reference to a creator.  
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Anaximenes   Scientist who believed everything was made from air.  
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Leucippus   Father of the atomic theory  
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Democritus   Scientist who believed that all matter was similar to sand.  
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Density   How tightly packed matter is  
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Aristotle   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   First scientist who demonstrated how closely mathematics and science are linked.  
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Ptolemy   Came up with Ptolemaic or Geocentric System  
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Ptolemaic or Geocentric System   Assumes that the earth sits at the center of the universe and all planets travel around it.  
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Alchemists   Wanted to find a means by which a substance could be transformed into gold  
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Supernova   The explosion of a star  
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Nebula   The remains of an exploaded star  
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Robert Grosseteste   Father of the scientific method  
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Dietrich Von Freiberg   The priest who solved the mystery of the rainbow  
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Roger Bacon   Tried to use science to break the shackles of superstition  
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Thomas Bradwardine   One of the first scientists to dispute Aristotle's findings  
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Nicholas of Cusa   His studies of the planets was one of the first to break from Ptolemy's geocentric view.  
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Nicolaus Copernicus   Came up with the Copernican or Heliocentric System  
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Copernican or Heliocentric System   Assumed the sun was at the center of the universe and all planets revolved around it  
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Andreas Vesalius   Author of book detailing the human body  
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Johannes Kepler   His oberservations detailed how planets travel in an oval pattern called an ellipse.  
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Galileo   Associated with the discovery of the telescope  
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Blaise Pascal   He demonstrated the effects of atmospheric pressure.  
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Sir Isaac Newton   Wrote "Principia," which states the three laws of motion  
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Robert Boyle   Founder of modern chemistry  
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Antoni van Leeuwenhoek   Built the first microscope  
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Carolus Linnaeus   Published book which classified all living creatures  
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Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier   Discovered Law of Mass Conservation and the first to explain combustion  
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John Dalton   Founder of modern atomic theory  
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Charles R. Darwin   Wrote the book "The Origin of Species" and developed the theory we now call evolution.  
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Louis Pasteur   Developed a process called pasteurization  
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Sir Charles Lyell   Influenced Darwin due to his view that earth is millions of years old  
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Gregor Mendel   Studied reproduction and provided ground work for the field of modern genetics  
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Michael Faraday   His experiments and ideas about electricity earned him the title of "the electrical giant"  
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James Clark Maxwell   Founder of modern physics  
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James Joule   Discovered the First Law of Thermodynamics  
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Max Planck   His ideas formed the study of quantum mechanics  
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Albert Einstein   Developed the theory of relativity  
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Niels Bohr   Developed a picture of the atom  
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