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Studied in Egypt and looked to a physical rather than a supernatural cause for phenomena in the world. He is credited with bringing mathematics and astronomy to Greeks, he is also the first to define general principles and develop hypotheses.
This American astronomer discovered galaxies beyond the Milky Way in the 1920s. Niels Bohr. This Danish scientist developed the Bohr model of the atom in the 1920s. Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like Hippocrates, Archimedes, Nicolaus Copernicus and more.
Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like Nicolaus Copernicus, Aristotle, Rene Descartes and more.
21 paź 2024 · Galileo, the brilliant Italian polymath, revolutionized our understanding of the universe through his groundbreaking discoveries in astronomy and contributions to scientific methodology.
He lived in the third century BC yet he was so influential that his ideas dominated western scientific thought for almost two thousand years. This is especially remarkable in light of the fact that most of his notions about the workings of the world were completely wrong.
20 sie 2014 · Aristotle is considered by many to be the first scientist, although the term postdates him by more than two millennia. In Greece in the fourth century BC, he pioneered the techniques of logic,...
The 13th-Century scholar Roger Bacon has a better claim to being the first scientist, as he recognised the importance of experiment, and distrusted intuitions and apparently ‘logical’ deductions of the kind that misled Aristotle.
