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60,000 BCE
Homimids
First forms of early humans, actually 66 million years before us BUT it doesn't go that far back. 66 million -
Period: 276 BCE to 194 BCE
Eratosthenes
most early and accurate man who found the circumference of the earth -
Period: 100 to 168
Ptolemy
Discovered many sciences like geocentric view and basic ideas of chemistry having avatar elements being the basis -
Period: 1473 to 1543
Copernicus
He managed to fortify and generalize the idea of the heliocentric view -
Period: Dec 14, 1546 to
Brahe
He helped bring the heliocentric view into the eyes of belief for the church -
Period: Jan 22, 1561 to
Bacon
Conceived scientific method and empiricism (its not true unless tested) -
Period: 1564 to
Galileo
Improved the telescope and conceived the idea of the heliocentric view -
Period: Dec 27, 1571 to
Kepler
Discovered that the planets go in elliptical orbits (oval) -
Period: to
Descrates
Conceived the idea of nothing being real and him only knowing that he exists because "he thinks there he is" -
Period: to
Locke
Man who conceived liberalism -
Period: to
Newton
3 laws of motion and gravity were discovered by him -
Period: to
Mendeleev
Created the original and most organized periodic table -
Period: to
Curie
Discovered new elements, some of which were radioactive -
Period: to
Leavitt
She viewed the stars and discovered the concept of redshift -
Period: to
Wegner
Man who published first the theory of continental drift and Pangea -
Period: to
Hubble
Discovered the idea of how the universe is continuously expanding, and getting farther away from us -
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Hess
brought forth the needed info to prove continental drift