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founder of Scholastic Schools

  • Aristotle
  • Aquinas (correct)
  • Plato
  • Socrates

Discovered Laudanum, tincture of opium as painkiller

  • Philippus Paracelsus (correct)
  • Roger Bacon
  • Nicola Fontana
  • Leonardo da Vinci

Discovered Pascal's triangle and elevation of 45o for maximum distance shot of a canon

  • Philippus Paracelsus
  • Nicolo Fontana (correct)
  • Roger Bacon
  • Nicolas Copernicus

successfully proposed the Heliocentric Theory

<p>Nicolas Copernicus (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

describes the planet's orbit, speed, time

<p>Johannes Kepler (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

First Scientist of Scientific Revolution

<p>Galileo Galilei (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Validated Copernican system using his own telescope and observations

<p>Galileo Galilei (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Assumed Earth to be floating in water

<p>Thales (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Formulated a theory of the origin and evolution of life.

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Suggests that air is the primary substance

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"Change is the essence of all being" and fire plays a crucial role in the process.

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Introduces the first idea of the atom, an indivisible unit of matter.

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Thought that atoms are solid, indestructible particles that are separated by empty space.

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Recognizes that Earth is sphere.

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Father of Medicine

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Contribute knowledge through dialogues using the Socratic Method

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Coined the term element and established the Academy; used abstract geometry models rather than empirical observations.

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Elements undergo changes when they combine and have qualities that are based on observations using our senses.

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Father of Biology

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originally proposed Sun-centered universe (Heliocentrism).

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Earth-centered model (Geocentrism) and became the most common cosmological view until Middle Ages.

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Father of Anatomy

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founder of Physiology

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Father of Modern Geometry

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Father of Mathematics

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First to use species as the fundamental unit of classification

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Father of Modern Taxonomy

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Father of Modern Anatomy

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The first to recognize the full circulation of the blood in the human body.

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Invented first barometer using mercury, leading to production of first vacuum known to science

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Formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation

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First national geographic survey, resulting in the first map produced according to modern principles

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first to propose Theory of Evolution he called Transformation, acquired characteristics gained during an organism’s life and can be inherited by the organism’s offspring

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developed Turing Machine, basis for the first computer

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Theory of relativity

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Gender Schema Theory

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Radioactivity and two new elements

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Discovered Penicillin

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First modern Periodic Table

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Use X-ray diffraction to see structure of DNA

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The inventor of the World Wide Web

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Big bang theory

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Germ Theory of Disease

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First successful polio vaccine

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Father of atomic physics

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Silent Spring

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Pioneer of modern chemistry

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Erythromycin

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Alternating Current (AC) Electricity

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Founder of Bacteriology

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Chemical Bonding, Quantum Chemistry

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Atomic Theory

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Wireless Telegraphy (Radio)

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Theory of Continental Drift

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Father of Algebra, Developed Early Algorithms

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Father of Electromagnetism

<p>Michael Faraday (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

E-jeepney

<p>Robert Puckett (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Mango production in the Philippines

<p>Ramon Barba (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Salamander Amphibious Tricycle

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Videophone

<p>Gregorio Zara (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

First automatic digital computer

<p>Charles Babbage (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Developed a patented formula that removes moles or warts.

<p>Rolando Dela Cruz (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Light bulb

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The world's first computer programmer.

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Invented the mercury thermometer in 1714

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Proposed a scale with zero at the boiling point and 100 degrees at the freezing point of water

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The idea of a logarithmic earthquake magnitude scale

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The first earthquake detector, called a seismoscope, was invented by

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The inventor of the electric battery and the discoverer of methane.

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Printing Press

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Permanent photographic image

<p>Nicéphore Niépce (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Braille System

<p>Louis Braille (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Bicycle.

<p>James Starley (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Credited with making one of the earliest compound microscopes

<p>Zacharias Janssen (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Medicine for Malaria

<p>Robert Ross (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who introduced the term Ecology?

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Information Age in 1982

<p>James Theodore (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Life cycles of filarial parasites, preventive measures in the form of drug treatment ; received the Philippine Legion of Honor

<p>Benjamin Cabrera (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Father of Filipino Inventors

<p>Benjamin Almeda Sr. (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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