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Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (15 results returned)

#5042, aired 2006-07-11	"PAR" FOR THE COURSE $2000: This 16th century Swiss alchemist opined that "medicine is not only a science; it is also an art" Paracelsus
#3701, aired 2000-10-09	16th CENTURY SCIENCE $100: In 1585 Dutch mathematician Simon Stevin first converted fractions to this format decimals
#3701, aired 2000-10-09	16th CENTURY SCIENCE $200: In 1582 much of Europe switched to this calendar after dropping 10 days from October Gregorian Calendar
#3701, aired 2000-10-09	16th CENTURY SCIENCE $300: In 1569 this Flemish geographer developed a map of the world in which Greenland looks bigger than Africa Gerardus Mercator
#3701, aired 2000-10-09	16th CENTURY SCIENCE $400: This tube connecting the ear and the throat was named for the scientist who illustrated it in 1552 Eustachian tube
#3701, aired 2000-10-09	16th CENTURY SCIENCE $500: He died on May 24, 1543, just after receiving the first copy of his book "On the Revolutions of Heavenly Bodies" Nicolaus Copernicus
#3687, aired 2000-09-19	SCIENCE & NATURE $500: This 16th century professor at the University of Padua is called the "Father of Modern Anatomy" Andreas Vesalius
#1093, aired 1989-05-10	16th CENTURY SCIENCE $100: In 1557 Robert Recorde introduced this math symbol consisting of 2 parallel lines equal
#1093, aired 1989-05-10	16th CENTURY SCIENCE $200: Italian botanist Prospero Alpini was the 1st European to describe this plant whose beans are brewed coffee
#1093, aired 1989-05-10	16th CENTURY SCIENCE $300: Bartolemeo Eustachio & Gabriel Fallopius have this type of body part named after them tubes
#1031, aired 1989-02-13	16th CENTURY SCIENCE $200: Konrad von Gresner thought these were rocks that just happened to look like bones or shells fossils
#1031, aired 1989-02-13	16th CENTURY SCIENCE $400: Ludolph of Cologne arrived at this number so accurately, Germans call it the Ludolphine number pi
#1031, aired 1989-02-13	16th CENTURY SCIENCE $800: In 1543 Andreas Vesalius published the 1st accurate work on this subject human anatomy
#1031, aired 1989-02-13	16th CENTURY SCIENCE $1000: In 1576 the king of Denmark financed an observatory for this astronomer Tycho Brahe
#1031, aired 1989-02-13	16th CENTURY SCIENCE $4,500 (Daily Double): When signing these, for which he's famous, Gerard Kremer used his Latin name, Geradus Mercator maps

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (1 result returned)

#5694, aired 2009-05-14

SCIENCE TERMS: In medieval England, it meant the smallest unit of time, 1/376 of a minute; it didn't refer to matter until the 16th century atom

Players (1 result returned)

Robert Knecht Schmidt, a patent agent from Cleveland, Ohio

Season 26 1-time champion: $12,799 + $1,000. Middle name pronounced like...

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