Topic a01 Science

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1   T or F: Aristotle was an ignoramus (a person who knows nothing).
2   T or F: Mill held that their was a definite method to doing science.
3   T or F: Turtles underpin the world.
4   T or F: Science adds to knowledge.
5   T or F: Only be convention does the world have a top and a bottom.
6   T or F: The seasons are due to Sun being at one of the foci of Earth’s elliptical orbit.
7   T or F: The solar system is at the center of the Milky Way.
8   T or F: Stars visible to the naked eye show parallax with respect to background stars seen through Galileo’s telescope.
9   T or F: The geological record evidences design.
10 T or F: Ussher calculated the "the beginning" was in the evening of Saturday 22, October, 4004 BC.
11 T or F: Time zones were first implemented in England .
12 T or F: AD can be replaced by CE, and BC can be replaced by BCE.
13 T or F: Epistomology finds science to be unproven and so of no use.
14 T or F: Rocks and fossils are mysterious as to origin.

Ramus
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Mill
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Turtles
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Science
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Earth is round
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Seasons
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Solar system
in Milky Way
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Galileo, Sidereal
Messenger
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Ussher
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Annales 1650
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Annals 1658
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Lightfoot
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Standard time
003-08-01		 A standardized time system was
first used by British railways on
December 11, 1847, when they
switched from local mean time to GMT.
Equation of time
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Prime meridian
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Greenwich
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Fleming
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Time zones
003-13-01		 1858 Filopanti's hypothesis was to
split up the earth into 24 Time zones.
Blaise: Time Lord
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Newton
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Cabal
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Camping
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Magnus: BC/AD,
BCE/CE
003-18-01		 Put B.C. after the year
and
A.D. before the year.
Stelluti>
Melissographia
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Speed
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Epistomology
004-11-01		 considers the sources, nature,
and limits of knowledge.

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1  T or F: Compound-lens microscopes allowed Leeuwenhoek to be the first to see bacteria.   
2  T or F: Hooke while Secretary of the Royal Society (UK) communicated the Leewenhoek’s findings..
3  T or F: Newton was being humble when he spoke about "standing on ye shoulders of giants."
4  T or F: Principia, 1687, had to do with optics. 4 T or F: Principia in 1687 proved Edmond Halley to be wrong.
5  T or F: Boyle tried to kill Newton by mercury poisoning.
6  T or F: Alchemists held that all metals were mixtures of mercury and sulfur.
7  T or F: The philosophers stone was also known as the Red King.

Leeuwenhoek
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Hooke
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Newton
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Burton
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Halley
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Boyle
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Red King (Iliaster)
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