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WorksheetsA Brief History of Science
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 12mins
A popular science during the time of the Roman Empire – they wanted to change metals into gold or other precious metals
Chemistry
Alchemy
Metallurgy
Physical Science
This scientist studied air and fluids – he established a “Law” that is used in hydraulics.
Newton
Leucippus
Pascal
Boyle
An English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author (known as the greatest scientist of all time) - was a Christian who studied Science to learn more about GOD.
Newton
Aristotle
Einstein
Mendel
This scientist is known as the Father of Chemistry.
Copernicus
Pascal
Newton
Boyle
This scientist developed the first microscope.
Democritus
Leeuwenhoek
Newton
Aristotle
This scientist authored “The Origin of Species” and the theory of evolution.
Kepler
Lydell
Newton
Darwin
This scientist is known for his work in Genetics (study of reproduction).
Mendel
Boyle
Bohr
Faraday
This scientist developed the “Special Theory of Relativity” (E=MC2 – matter and energy are interchangeable)
Boyle
Newton
Einstein
Pascal
This scientist developed the first picture of an atom.
Bohr
Newton
Boyle
Democritus
Ancient Greek scientist that studied the origin of life – he thought people were fish who came out of the sea.
Grosseteste
Copernicus
Anaximander
Nicholas of Cusa
Known as the "Father of Life Sciences" - also believed in spontaneous generation.
Democritus
Aristotle
Copernicus
Imhotep
Ancient Greek scientist who proposed all matter was really made of little units called "atoms". (Laughing philosopher)
Leucippus
Aristotle
Copernicus
Democritus
The "Father of the Scientific Method".
Newton
Leucippus
Grosseteste
Aristotle
An Egyptian priest known as a poet, physician, mathematician, astronomer, and architect who practiced some form of medical practices around 2650 B.C.
Pharaoh II
Imhotep
Thales
Ptolemy
This scientist followed Anaximenes studies and proposed the idea of atoms – known as the “father of atomic theory”.
Leucippus
Anaximander
Copernicus
Democritus
This scientist discredited Ptolemy’s idea about the universe by proposing that the sun not the earth is at the center of our solar system.
Leucippus
Nicholas of Cusa
Aristotle
Grosseteste
This scientist thought the earth was the center of the universe and the planets and stars orbited about the earth in a series of circles. Also called the Ptolemaic system or geocentric system and does not move.
Anaximander
Archimedes
Aristotle
Ptolemy
During the Industrial Revolution Immanuel Kant used this term to describe the change in Science.
New Age
Enlightenment
Evolution
Physical Awareness
This scientist established the “Heliocentric System”.
Aristotle
Democritus
Copernicus
Leucippus
A belief that all known planets were in a fixed place in the heavens and the heavens rotated around the earth.
Geocentric system
Heliocentric System
Solar system
Astronomical alignment
A Greek mathematician and mechanical engineer– showed how math and science are related – best known for formulating the “law of buoyancy” - (discovered it while taking a bath – ran naked)
Democritus
Archimedes
Leucippus
Thales
An anatomist and physician who in 1543 published his work on the human body with accurate illustrations – first book showing the insides of the human body.
Vesalius
Kepler
Galileo
Aristotle
An English chemist, physicist, and meteorologist who worked with gases – considered the father of Atomic Theory – some of his ideas were wrong but most of them were correct.
Kant
Boyle
Linnaeus
Dalton
A French biologist, microbiologist and chemist who disproved the idea of spontaneous generation (living organisms created from nonliving matter) – worked with bacteria to develop “pasteurization” and vaccines.
Lamarck
Pasteur
Laurent
Robinet
