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Jan 4, 1581
James Ussher
By counting the generations of the Bible and adding them to modern history, he fixed the date of creation at October 23, 4004 B.C. -
John Ray
National Theologiest. Father was a blacksmith and mother was known as a healer.Ray searched for the "natural system," a classification of organisms that would reflect the Divine Order of creation. -
Isaac Newton
Focused much of his work on the theory of gravitation force and its effect on the orbit of the planets. -
Benjamin Franklin
Conducted other experiments in meteorology including noting that storms do not always follow the prevailing winds and that evaporation helps in the cooling process. -
Carl Linnaeus
His system for naming, ranking, and classifying organisms is still in wide use today (with many changes). His ideas on classification have influenced generations of biologists during and after his own lifetime. -
Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon
published 36 quarto volumes of his Histoire naturelle during his lifetime.There is still further reserch being published in the two decades after his death. -
James Hutton
The natural forces now changing the shape of the earth's surface have been operating in the past much the same way.This revolutionary idea was instrumental in leading Charles Darwin to his understanding of biological evolution in the 1830's. -
Erasmus Darwin
Argues that all life could a have a single common ancestor, though he struggled with the concepts of a mechanism for this descent.He also subscribed to a theory stating that the use or disuse of parts could in itself make them grow or shrink, and that unconscious striving by the organism was responsible for adaptation -
William Paley
His most influential contribution to biological thought, however, was his book Natural Theology: or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature. -
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Lamarck believed that all organisms fundamentally wanted to adapt themselves to their environment, and so they strove to become better adapted. -
Thomas Mathus
Wrote the popualtion and being well prepared to appreciate the struggle for existence which everywhere goes on from long- continued observation of the habits of animals and plants, it at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed. The results of this would be the formation of a new species. -
Georges Cuvier
He contributed an immense amount of research in vertebrate and invertebrate zoology and paleontology, and also wrote and lectured on the history of science. -
William Buckland
Geology and Mineralogy considered with reference to Natural Theology setting out the logic of day-age, gap theory, and theistic evolution. -
Charles Babbage
Published his unofficial Ninth Bridgewater Treatise in 1837, putting forward a thesis that God had the omnipotence and foresight to create as a divine legislator -
Charles Lyell
Was a geologist.He is best known for the Principles of Geology, which popularised James Hutton's concepts of uniformitarianism. -
Louis Agassiz
Was the scientist that founded the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard -
The birth of Darwin
Charles Darwin becomes born to Robert and Susannah Darwin. -
Alexander Graham Bell
invented the telephone in 1875. -
Albert Einstein
Theory of Relativity and his Electromagnetic Theory of Light; but few of us will ever understand them. -
Max Born
While he was in the army, he wrote his first book, Dynamics of Crystal Lattices, in 1915.
