Sts module 2

Cards (48)

  • Scientific Revolution
    The drastic change in scientific thought, new view of nature emerged
  • Pre-Copernican Origins
    Also called as Geocentric system
  • Anaximander of miletus
    Greek philosopher where origins if thinking is traced from
  • Pythagoras
    Suggested the earth was a sphere
  • Plato
    Explained that the cosmos were made of geometric shapes circling around the earth
  • Aristotle
    Supposed the earth was the center of the universe with all other celestial bodies in concentric crystalline
  • Ptolemy
    Refined the explanation behind the movement of the planet and it was accepted that the earth was unmoving while the sun, planets, stars revolved around it
  • Copernican System
    Also called as Heliocentric system
  • Nicolaus Copernicus
    Developed the Heliocentric model/system
  • Nicolaus copernicus
    Father of Modern Astronomy
  • Nicolaus Copernicus
    Proposed that the sun is the center of the universe while the earth's rotation caused the risinv and setting of the sun and of the seasons
  • Retrograde Motion
    Occasional backward movement of the planets
  • Heliocentric model
    A model that proposed that the sun is the center of the universe and not the earth
  • Tycho Brahe
    He Combined the copernican and ptolemaic systems and was called geoheliocentrism or the tychonic system
  • Johannes Kepler
    He Proposed his law of planetary motions including the theory that planet move in elliptical orbits
  • Galileo Galilei
    He Published a book reinforcing that the earth revolved around the sun
  • Isaac newton
    He provided the first mathematical equations to prove copernicus's notions
  • Giordano Bruno

    Spread Copernicus's theory of a heliocentric and Scientific Universe
  • Robert Boyle
    He is considered as the father of modern chemistry
  • Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
    Father of microbiology
  • Francis Bacon
    A staunch supporter of the empirical method and inductive reasoning
  • Rene Descartes
    A french mathematician and philosopher who practiced deductive reasonings and the scientific method
  • Ersamus Darwin
    He quietly brought the idea of evolution to England and France; the grandfather of Charles Darwin
  • Zoonomia
    Also called as the laws of organic life. Contains theories about evolution and suggested that the earth is much older than the timeline based om biblical origin
  • 16
    Age of charles darwin when he entered Edinburgh University to study medicine
  • Robert Edmond Grant
    He is an anatomist and zoologist and a radical evolutionist. He is the follower of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
  • Adam Sedgwick and John Stevens Henslow
    They are prominent people that influenced charles darwin
  • Adam Sedgwick
    He did geolocical researnd and mapping the strata of wales with charles darwin
  • Henslow
    Went on a voyage with darwin to Tierra Del Fuego
  • Robert Fitzroy
    Published Darwin's findings as part of his narrative
  • Zoology of the Voyage of the HMS Beagle
    The title of Fitzroy's narrative about the voyage
  • Natural Selection
    A process where species adapt to the changing environment to survive
  • On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
    Darwin's book that talks about his theory about evolution
  • Father of Evolution
    Charles Darwin is also known for his title as the
  • Richard Owen and John Gould
    The two experts who scrutinized Darwin's findings
  • Darwinian Revolution
    Ended the Copernican Revolution
  • Evolutionary Biology
    Origin of life and diversification/adaptation of life
  • Neo-darwinism
    Reconciles Evolution and Heredity
  • Philosophy of Biology
    Relates biology to classic issues in Philosophy of Science
  • Sigismund (Sigmund) Freud
    Father of Psychoanalysis