STS Flashcards

(56 cards)

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He uses the word dinosaurs to describe the terrible lizards

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Richard Owen

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2
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He said that earth is covered with impregnable ice

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Louis Agassiz

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3
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Birds could have involved from the now extinct dinosaurs

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Thomas Henry Huxley

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4
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He was able to solve problems through periodic table of elements

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Dmitri Mendeleev

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5
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Benzone Molecule

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August Kekule

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6
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Spontaneous life could not be done

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Louis Pasteur

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7
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Completed the full list of atomic weights

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Jons Jakob Berzelius

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8
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Potential use of atomic weights

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John Dalton

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9
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Said that light fast traveled in air than water

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Hippolyte Fizeau & Leon Facault

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10
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Doppler Effect to Binary Starts

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Christian Doppler

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11
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Wavelife interference

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Thomas Young

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12
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X-Rays

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Wilhem Rontgen

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13
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Thermometer Spectrum

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William Herschel

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14
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Connection of mathematics and electromagnetism

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Clerk Maxwell

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15
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First electric motor

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Michael Faraday and Scottish James

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16
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Electricy and magnetism

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Danish Hans Christian Orsted

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17
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Creation of new proffesion other than philosophy

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William Whewell

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18
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Invented electric battery

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Alessandro Volta

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19
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Demography

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Thomas Maltus

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20
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Comex structure of plants and insects

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Christian Sprengel

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21
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One of the proponent of Theory of Evolution

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George Louis Leclerc

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22
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Earth was a little bit older than anyone had previously believed.

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James Hutton

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23
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Took advantage of Newton’s Idea

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Neliv Maskelyne

24
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Big scale of ocean current flowed at the bottom of the sea.

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Benjamin Franklin

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Discover the root pressure and invented a through fo collecting gasses
Stephen Hales
26
Pressure of fluid falls when it is moving
Daniel Bernoulli
27
Best achievement of the century belongs to:
Isaac Newton
28
Showed the different stages of an insect
John Swammerdam
29
Father of Microbiology
Anthonie Van Leeuwenhoek
30
Complext structure of small insects such as flees and bugs
Robert Hooke
31
Calculation on the approximate speed of light
Danish Astronomer
32
Theories of Light Travel
Isaan Newton
33
Air pump
Robert Boyle
34
Telescopes and four moons
Galileo Galilei
35
Geocentric Model
Ptolemy
36
Heliocentric Model
Nicolaus Copernicus
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Blossoming of Sciences
Golden Age of Islamic Period
38
Invented gun powders such as fireworks, rockets, metals, and guns.
Chinese
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First used by Indian
Spinning Wheel
40
Foresaw the occurence of rare solar eclipse
Thales of Miletus
41
Historical region in Western Asia
Mesopotamia
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Center of Learning
Athens
43
Sun was very large
Aristrachus of Samos
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Combination of planetary observation and calculation of Ptolemaic System
King Alfonso X of Castle
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No proof that Earth is static
Nicole Orosme
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Fixed Copernicus Model
Tycho Brahe
47
Four moons
Galileo Galilei
48
Remains of extinct animals that dies in Biblical Catastrophic
Georges Cuvier
49
Environmental changes and disuse in a person (Giraffe) Praised by Charles Darwin
Jean Baptist Lamarck
50
Used by Charles Darwin to collect fossil, animal, and specimen
HMS Beagle Ship
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Journal name of Charles Darwin
The Zoology of The Voyage of HMS Beagle
52
Uniformitarianism
James Hutton
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British Naturalist
Alfred Wallace
54
When does electric battery was discovered?
1799
55
Was able to produced an amazing doctoral thesis about calcium carbonate degeneration and the extraction of carbon.
Joseph Black
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Made an important contribution to the field by illustrating that water was made of two parts of hydrogen to one of oxygen.
Henry Cavendish