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QUESTION:
When was the year when the growth of new
technological developments that drove
scientists to study subjects in their smallest
state and become obsessed with anything
minute was shown?
ANSWER: 1600
Q : What was produced by the Dutch
makers of eyeglass ?
A: ROBERT HOOKE
Q: Who was the store owner of fabric who
started making his own microscope and was
able to find small life forms in places where
scientists had not thought of conducting their
research before , such as water?
- discovered the life forms with the single
cells, like bacteria
- Father of Microbiology
A: ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK
A: JOHN RAY
Q: The new discoveries were quite important as
they laid a stable foundation and basis for the
rise of modern scientific disciplines. What
were these four disciplines?
A: ISAAC NEWTON
A: ISAAC NEWTON
A: STEPHEN HALES
A: DANIEL BERNOULLI
Q: What is Bernoulli principle?
A: The pressure of the fluid falls when it is
moving.
This principle allowed the Swiss wizard to
keep tabs on blood pressure.
- utilized in the principles governing the
flying of an aircraft
Q: Who was a Scottish Chemist who was able
to produce an amazing doctoral thesis about
the calcium carbonate degeneration and the
exraction of carbon dioxide?
A: JOSEPH BLACK
Q : Who made an important contribution to
the field by illustrating that water was
made of two parts of hydrogen to one of
oxygen?
A: HENRY CAVENDISH
A: JAN INGENHOUSZ
Q : Who explained that many elements
including carbon and phosphorus, could
burn by combining with oxygen to form
what is now termed as oxides?
A: ANTOINE LAVOISER
A: JOSEPH PROUST
Q: Who was able to show how big-scale
ocean currents flowed at the bottom of the
sea with his inquiries of the Gulf Stream?
A: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A: GEORGE HADLEY
Q : Who took advantage of Newton’s idea,
by taking measurements of the
gravitational pull of mountain in
Scotland, and in the process was able to
find out that the density of the earth?
A: NEVIL MASKELYNE
A: JAMES HUTTON