Scientists Flashcards
(146 cards)
640 - 546 BCE Thales of Miletus
1) Theories of matter
2) Magnetism and Static Electricity
3) Geometry
580 - 500 BCE Pythagoras
1) Numbers are basic to matter
2) Geometry
3) Atomic theory
4) Earth is round
460 - 377 BCE Hippocrates
1) Father of medicine
2) Described diseases and medical conditions
3) Early surgery
384 - 322 BCE Aristotle
1) Matter
2) Classification of animals and plants (Early Taxonomy)
325 - 265 BCE Euclid
1) Tenets of Geometry
2) Optics
287 - 212 Archimedes
1) Displacement (Eureka - Gold Crown)
2) Pi
3) Archimedean Screw (Pulls Products along)
1450 Johannes Gutenberg
Printing Press
1510 Copernicus
Theory of the Universe
Said that the sun was the centre and that earth was spinning on an axis.
1590 Zacharias Jannsen
First Compound Microscope
1600 Galileo
1) Researched motion (Falling Speed is not proportional to weight)
2) Theorised measurements of Temperature
3) Kinetic energy and the pendulum
4) Creates a telescope and support Copernicus
1650 Evangelista Torricelli
Mercury Barometer
1650 Christiaan Huygens
1) Wave theory
2) Pendulum clock
1665 Richard Lower
First transfusion of blood, completed on dogs
1620 -1630 Francis Bacon
1) Novum Organum
2) History of Life and Death
3) Father of modern scientific method
1674 - 1683 Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
Protozoa and Bacteria
1660 - 1665 Robert Hooke
1) Theories of elasticity
2) The cell (Plant cells)
3) Theory of light and sound waves
Isaac Newton
1) Three Laws of motion
2) Newtons law of gravity
3) Newtons theories of light
4) Theories of calculus
1703 Gottfried Leibniz
Binary Numbering
1712 Thomas Newcomen
First Steam Engine
1757 John Campbell
Sextant
1730s - 1770s John Harris
Chronometer
1770s Abraham Darby
Iron Bridge Construction
1770s John Dalton
Atomic Theory
1770s Edward Jenner
Vaccinations - smallpox
