HISTORY OF SCIENCE Flashcards
broke with the traditional belief that the earth was at the center of the
universe.
Copernicus
rejected the older alchemical & medical theories & founded iatrochemistry
(medical chemistry)
Paracelsus
turned away the teaching of Galen & through his anatomical studies
helped found modern medicine & biology
Andreas Vesalius
who urged that the experimental method plays a key role in scientific
theories.
Francis Bacon
who held that the universe is a mechanical system that can be described in
mathematical terms
Rene Descartes
who also made improvements in the telescope
Christians Huygens
used the findings of others to develop a unified view of the forces of the
universe. Newtons study of lenses & prisms laid the foundation for the
modern study of optics.
Isaac Newton
independently developed a new system of mathematics calculus
Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
began the modern Physiology
William Harvey
pioneered the used or microscope to study he fine structures of plants
Robert Hooke
introduced many new ways of identifying the chemical composition or
substances
Robert Boyle
discovered X-ray 1895
Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
radioactivity in 1896
Antoine Henry Becquerel
radium in 1898
Pierre and Marie Curie
psychoanalysis in 1900
Sigmund Freud
discovered the theory of quanta in 1901
Max Planck
theory of mutations in 1901- 1903
Hugo de Vries
special and general theories of relativity in 1905- 1916
Albert Einstein
disintegration of atom in 1919
Baron Rutherford
the first man to introduce history of science in a broader
context & to increase its circulation in his Course of Positive Philosophy.
Auguste Comte
the real inheritor of Comte's thought & the first great teacher of the history of science. During his time, the history of science became a full-pledged discipline.
Paul Tannery
Astronomer- predicted
eclipse of the sun in 585 B.C.
Geometry of circles
Thales OF Miletus
Cartography, Obliquity of the
ecliptic
Anaximander
Laws of conservation of
matter and energy
Anaximenes
