Lesson 2 Flashcards
From the age of 4,000 BC, the high priest of Sumeria scrutinized the stars, the vast records of such endeavors were inscribed on tablets that were made of clay
The Advent of Science (600 BC to 1400 AD)
Foresaw the occurrence of a rare solar eclipse
Thales
Did not engage the experiment, reasoned that if he had been able to gather astute men with intelligence
Aristotle
Was able to detect the characteristics of liquid, such as fluids.
Archimedes
Tinkered with the Earth breath and width
Erastosthenes
He constructed precise clocks
Ctesibius
Were able to Invent gunpowder, fireworks, rockets, metas and guns, seismograph and compass
Chinese
Invented by Zhang Heng
Seismoscope
Was first used by Indians
Spinning wheel
Brilliant Indian mathematics were also responsible for the development of?
Arabic Number System
It was great use to Arabic nomads who used such knowledge of the heavenly bodies to navigate their tireless camels across the Arabian desert.
Science of Astronomy
Who wrote about optics
Alhazen
A physician who formulated soap and made distinction between smallpox and measles
Al-Razi
He introduced algebra and algorithm.
Al-khwarizmi
He was the 1st to use rod System
Al-jazari
The Golden age of the Islamic period, allowed to blossoming the science in the 750s.
The Great Scientific Revolution of 1400 to 1700 AD
He proposed the Heliocentric theory.
Nicolaus Copernicus
He observe the elliptical orbit of Mars.
Johannes Kepler
Who invented Telescope?
Galileo Galilei
He took advantage of Galileo’s ideas with pendulum and soon the 1st pendulum clock in 1657.
Christiaan Huygens
The 1600s saw the growth of new technological developments that drove scientist to study objects in their smallest state.
The Age of Micro-beings (Robert Hooke)
Discovered life forms with single cells like bacteria
Antonio Van Leeuwenhoek
His work considered as 1st important attempt to systematize the classification of living things.
John Ray
Newtonian physics, also Newtonian or mechanics is the description of mechanical events.
Isaac Newton
