Learn Scientific Discoveries
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What you'll learn in Scientific Discoveries
- Biology (early systematic study) — Aristotle
- Earth is a sphere — Aristotle
- Levers and buoyancy — Archimedes
- Sun-centered universe (heliocentrism) — Nicholaus Copernicus
- Modern human anatomy — Andreas Vesalius
- The heavens are not fixed and unchanging — Tycho Brahe
- Law of falling objects (gravity) — Galileo Galilei
- Planets’ true orbits — Johannes Kepler
- Other planets have moons — Galileo Galilei
- Human circulatory system — William Harvey
- Air pressure — Evangelista Torricelli
- Boyle’s Law — Robert Boyle
- Cells (in cork) — Robert Hooke
- Universal gravitation — Isaac Newton
- Fossils (as remains of once-living organisms) — Nicholas Steno
- Distance to the sun — Giovanni Cassini
- Bacteria (microscopic “animalcules”) — Anton van Leeuwenhoek
- Laws of motion — Isaac Newton
- Compressibility of gasses — Robert Boyle
- Taxonomy system — Carl Linnaeus
- Lift/fluid pressure — Daniel Bernoulli
- Galaxies (structure of the Milky Way) — William Herschel and Thomas Wright
- Nature of electricity — Benjamin Franklin
- Comets have predictable orbits — Edmond Halley
- Gulf Stream — Benjamin Franklin
- Oxygen — Joseph Priestley
- Hydrogen — Henry Cavendish
- Photosynthesis — Jan Ingenhousz
- Conservation of matter — Antoine Lavoisier
- Nature of heat — Count Rumford (Benjamin Thompson)
- Erosion (weathering) — James Hutton
- Vaccinations — Edward Jenner
- Origin of the solar system — Pierre-Simon Laplace
- Mass of the earth — Henry Cavendish
- Infrared — William Herschel
- Ultraviolet — Johann Ritter
- Anesthesia (potential of nitrous oxide) — Humphry Davy
- Atoms — John Dalton
- Electrochemical bonding — Humphry Davy
- Molecules — Amedeo Avogadro
- Liquification of gasses — Michael Faraday
- Electromagnetism — Hans Christian Ørsted
- Fingerprints, uniqueness of — Jan Evangelista Purkinje
- Dinosaur fossils — William Buckland
- Magnetic induction — Michael Faraday
- Ice ages — Louis Agassiz
- Ether (anesthesia) — Crawford Long
- Calorie — James Joule
- Conservation of energy — Hermann von Helmholtz
- Chloroform (anesthesia) — James Young Simpson
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