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EOC Review. Famous Scientists . Archimedes. He discovered pi . He developed levers and pulleys. Formula – surface and volume of a sphere . Archimedes. Water screw. The water screw brought water to the surface , enabling farmers to irrigate their crops. Eratosthenes. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Famous Scientists

EOC Review

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•He discovered pi.•He developed levers and pulleys.

•Formula – surface and volume of a sphere.

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•The water screw brought water to the surface, enabling farmers to irrigate their crops.

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•Greek mathematician •Measured the circumference of the earth.

•Did a good deal of work with prime numbers.

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•A(2) + B(2) = C(2)

•Pythagorean theorem

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• The Islamic Golden Age• “The Father of

Algebra,” Muhammad ibn Musa al Khwarizmi

was a scholar in the House of Wisdom.

•He was a mathematician, astronomer and

geographer.

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•Arab scholars also improved the workings of the astrolabe.•Astrolabes are used to

determine one’s location based on the position of the planets and stars. •This made it possible for

men like Columbus to sail to the Americas.

A 16th Century Astrolabe above

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• He was the 1st to claim that the Earth was not the center of the universe.

• That planets, including the Earth, revolved around the sun.

• This is the Heliocentric view of the cosmos.

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•With the use of his telescope, Galileo will prove that Copernicus was right.

•He published The Starry Messenger in 1610, radically changing our awareness of the cosmos.

An original Galilean telescope.

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• In the Dialogue, Galileo put forth the Heliocentric view of the cosmos. The church brought Galileo before an inquisition and forced him to recant.

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•Boyle pioneered work on the

properties of gases that led to Boyle’s

law : volume of a gas varies with the

pressure exerted on it.

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•He is best known for his laws of:

•Optics•Gravity•Motion• Inertia•Math - Calculus

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• Watt – Improved the steam engine.

• Steam powered mechanical engines, allowing them to be

placed anywhere.• Steam engines led to factories

– radically changing the world from a rural one to an

urban one.

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•1859 - Published the Origin of the

Species•Theories of:

natural selection and survival of the

fittest.

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Theory of evolution – Belief that all forms of life, including humans, evolved from earlier living forms that had existed millions of years ago.•Directly contradicted creation theories.

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• Greatest female scientist of all time.

• 2 time Nobel Prize winner in 1903 and

1911 for the following discoveries:

• Discovered elements of radium and

polonium.

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•She was the first woman to win a Nobel

Prize in Physics and later in Chemistry.

She isolated properties of radium for use in x-

ray machines.

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•1870’s - Developed the process of pasteurization.

•Discovered organisms he called bacteria.

•Pasteurization is the use of heat to kill germs in liquids like milk.

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•Theory of relativity – argued

that space and time are not

constant.•New ideas on

space, time, energy and

matter.

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•“The Wizard of Menlo Park.”

•Inventor of the Light-bulb.

• Invented the phonograph and movie projector.

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• Information could be printed faster and

cheaper than before.• Information spread

quickly, powering the Renaissance, Protestant

Reformation (Luther), and the Age of Discovery

(Maps for Columbus).

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•It lengthened the work day. Businesses could

now run 24 hours a day.

•This made the Industrial Revolution in

the USA even more productive than

before.

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• It powered the Industrial Revolution.

•Factories could now be built almost anywhere.

•Machines could produce more goods –

faster and cheaper.