Who was the first scientist to propose that everything is built up from atoms?
Leucippus of Miletus
Democritus of Abdera
Isaac Newton
Is Euclid's collection of geometric proofs known as the 'Elements', published around 300 BC, still in use?
Yes
No
Yes, but only as a publication of historical interest
Who compiled the first comprehensive star chart in 134 BC?
Titus Lucretius Carus
Hipparchus of Rhodes
Sosigenes of
Who was the originator of the word 'algebra'?
Aristotle
Muhammed ibn Musa al-Kwarizmi
Immanuel Kant
Isaac Newton
What did Johann Gutenberg invent around 1437?
a printing technique with moveable type
a basic typewriter
a way to reproduce printed text by photocopy
Who made the first telescope in 1590 by combining double convex lenses?
Galileo Galilei
Leonardo Da Vinci
Zacharias and Hans Janssen
What do we call the moons orbiting the planet Jupiter which Galileo Galileo discovered in 1609?
The Jovian Moons
The Galilean Moons
They do not have a group name
Who observed, in 1620, that the maps of Africa and South America seemed to fit together (hinting at tectonics)?
Francis Bacon
Galileo Galilei
Was Blaise Pascal's five-digit adding machine the first calculator?
Yes
No, a six-digit calcuator, driven by gears, had been constructed as early as 1623
He did not build an adding machine
Who was tried and sentenced to house arrest by the Inquisition in 1632 for his belief that the Earth orbited the Sun?
Galileo Galilei
Giordano Bruno
Leonardo Da Vinci
What did Evangelista Torricelly devise in 1644 to measure atmospheric pressure?
a mercury barometer
an air freshener
a thermometer
Who discovered Saturn's moon Titan, and when?
Hipparchus of Rhodes in 134 BC
Galileo Galilei in 1651
Christiaan Huygens in 1655
How was phosphorus discovered around 1674?
by distilling human urine
by taking samples from a live volcano
by subtracting salt from ocean water
How did Ole Roemer discover that light travels at a finite speed in 1676?
By measuring the time it took for a light signal to travel from Paris to Copenhagen
By observing the
By calculating differences in the orbits of Mars and Earth
What was special about the chronometer which John Harrison tested at sea in 1736?
it was the first accurate clock which ran on salt-water batteries
it was the first chronometer to cross the Pacific ocean
it was the first accurate chronometer for determining longitude
What was the 'leyden jar' which was invented in 1746?
a form of capacitator which produces electric sparks
the first tin can for conservation of foods
a small flask for storing blood samples
Who published the first classification system for plants and animals in 1758?
Charles Darwin
Carl Linné
Francis Bacon
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