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Roger Bacon's work helped lay the groundwork for modern science.
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Paracelsus argued that diseases have natural causes.
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Vesalius published Fabrica.
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Nicolaus Copernicus wrote that the earth is a planet, not the center of the universe.
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Galileo Galilei stated the law of the pendulum; also studied gravity and prepared the way for Newton's laws of motion.
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Microscope.
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Thermometer.
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William Gilbert published his book about magnetism, the first great English science book.
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Created the Electroscope
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Created the Telescope
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Johannes Kepler formulated the laws of planetary motion
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Francis Bacon formulated the scientific method.
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Slide rule
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William Harvey described blood circulation.
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Evangelista Torricelli invented the barometer.
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Robert Boyle laid the foundation for modern chemistry; stated his law of gases.
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Isaac Newton invented a form of calculus.
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Robert Hooke was the first to see a cell.
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Isaac Newton constructed a reflecting telescope.
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Bacteria discovered.
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Edmond Halley used the telescope to chart stars.
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Isaac Newton published his laws of motion and universal gravitation.
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Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the mercury thermometer.
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Chronometer
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Carolus Linnaeus established the modern classification system.
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Anders Celsius invented the centigrade temperature scale.
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Henry Cavendish discovered hydrogen.
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Pierre Simon de Laplace's work in celestial mechanics helped reveal the stability of the solar system.
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Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen.
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Torsion balance
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Antoine Lavoisier founded modern chemistry.
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Henry Cavendish showed that water consists of hydrogen and oxygen.
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Charles de Coulomb stated the law of electrical attraction and repulsion.
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Edward Jenner discovered vaccination for the prevention of disease.
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John Dalton proposed the atomic theory of matter.
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Gyroscope
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Stethoscope
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Hans C. Oersted discovered electromagnetism.
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Thomas Seebeck discovered thermoelectricity.
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Friedrich Wohler was first to synthesize an organic compound.
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Michael Faraday and Joseph Henry discovered electromagnetic induction.
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Jakob Berzelius proposed the present chemical symbols.
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Friedrich Bessel made the first authenticated measurement of distance to a star.
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Christian Doppler stated the Doppler effect.
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Hermann Helmoltz helped establish the first law of thermodynamics.
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Bunsen burner
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Rudolph Clausius stated the second law of thermodynamics.
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Opthalmoscope
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Hypodermic syringe
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Louis Pasteur first pasteurized milk to kill germs.
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Gregor Mendel stated his laws of heredity.
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Dmitri Mendeleev developed the periodic table of the elements.
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James C. Maxwell predicted the existence of electromagnetic waves.
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Heinrich Hertz showed the existence of electromagnetic waves.
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Wilhelm Roentgen discovered x-rays.
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Max Planck stated the quantum theory of light.
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Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity.
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Albert Einstein stated the special theory of relativity.
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J. J. Thomson discovered electrons.
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Ernest Rutherford founded nuclear science.
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Niels Bohr applied the quantum theory to atomic.
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Geiger counter
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Albert Einstein stated the general theory of relativity
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Electron microscope.
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Particle accelerator.
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Enrico Fermi produced the first successful nuclear chain reaction.
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Digital computer
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The age space began.
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Laser
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Man first flew in space
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Man first landed on the moon.
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First reusable spacecraft launched.
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First reusable spacecraft launched.
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First use of gene therapy to treat disease.
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Hubble Space Telescope launched.
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Carbon nanotubes discovered.
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3D printing.
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Bacterial genomes first sequenced.
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Quantum computer.
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Beginning of medical of medical stem cell research.
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Human genome sequencing completed.
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Gravitational waves detected.
