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• Aristotle- scale of nature
• Carolus Linnaeus- Systema Naturae,
• Georges Cuvier- He is known as the father

  of Paleontology and the theory of of Catastrophism.
• James Hutton- Theory of Gradualism
• Charles Lyell- Principles of Geology and

  Theory of Uniformitarianism.
• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck- A French naturalist, published his theory of evolution.
• Charles Darwin- On the Origin of Species.
• Charles Darwin- Natural Selection/ survival to the fittest
• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck -theory of evolution was based around how organisms (e.g. animals, plants) change during their lifetime, and then pass these changes onto their offspring.
• INFORMATION REVOLUTION- the proliferation of information and the accompanying changes in its storage and dissemination owing to

  the use of computers.
• INFORMATION REVOLUTION- also known as the Computer Age, Digital Age
• Steve Jobs- created the first effective personal computer the Apple 1 which carved the path for iPhone, iPod, iPad, iMac, and Apple TV.
• Bill Gates- founded Microsoft, which develops programs like Microsoft Office, Windows, and many other influential products.
• OLMEC

  Rubber people, made rubber ball for a ritualistic ballgameSouthern Mexico, developed the first written language, mother culture of the region
• MAYA

  • Great cities (Southern Mexico, Guatemala & Honduras)
  • Highly developed written language, mathematics and astronomy, pyramids (Tikal),
  • Ruled by an aristocratic nobility
  • Used cocoa beans as their currency
  • Also known for their mysteries
• AZTEC

  • Lived in Central Mexico, advanced engineers, religious people
  • Conquered by the Spaniards
• HONG-KONG- VIDEO PROJECTOR
• TAIWAN- little green man
• SOUTH KOREA- sentry gun
• INDIA - Ancient Indians were very interested in astronomy, the

  study of stars and planets

  They were aware of seven of the eight planets

  They knew the sun was a star

  They could even predict eclipses of the sun and the moon

  Known for the manufacturing iron and in metallurgical

  works

  Also of their medicine called AYURVEDA

  • MATHEMATICS

  o they tried to standardize measurement of length to a high degree of accuracy

  o BRAHMAGUPTA

  o Defined the properties of the number zero, both as a placeholder and a decimal digit

  o Suggested the gravity was a force of attraction
• China Traditional medicine – acupuncture

  Compass, papermaking, gunpowder, printing tools

  • Astronomy – heavenly bodies, lunar calendars
• Japan- International space station and bullet train
• earth centered- Geocentric
• sun centered- hellocentric
• Isaac Newton - Understood motion of celestial bodies using reflective telescope, elaborated Johannes Keplers Laws.
• Johannes Kepler- His ideas helped Newton discover gravity: planets move not incircles but in ellipses: developed planetary motion.
• Albert Einstein - Believed that the universe is static but later accepted the expanding universe idea.
• Ptolemy - Earth is the center of the solar system and the universe which is also static.
• Nicolas Copernicus - Planets orbited the sun and moon orbited the earth: Sun is the center of the universe which is not moving nor did the stars.
• Aristotle - The spheres were centered on stationary earth; stars were fixed in the outer space.
• Edwin Hubble - Existence of galaxies : the universe is expanding: galaxies are moving away from the milky way at a speed proportional to its distance.
• Galileo Galilei - 1st to use telescope to study the heavens, supported sun centered solar system
• Tycho Brahe - measured positions of planets: his model had all the planets orbiting around the sun but sun is orbiting the earth which is stationary; supported the thoughts of Galileo on the phases of Venus.