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276 BCE
eratosthenes
Greek mathematicians -
Feb 19, 1473
copernicus
heliocentric view -
Dec 14, 1546
Tycho Brahe
developed astronomical instruments -
Jan 22, 1561
bacon
helped with the scientific method; father of empiricism -
Feb 15, 1564
Galileo
improved the telescope; proved heliocentric views -
Dec 27, 1571
Johannes Kepler
laws of planetary motion -
Descartes
"i think, therefore i am" -
Locke
English philosopher -
Newton
made the laws of motion -
Alfred Wegener
continental drift theory -
Hess
plate tectonics theory