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Period: Jan 28, 1473 to
Intellectuals of the Science Revolution
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Jan 29, 1543
nicolous capernicus
a native of poland, published his famous book on, on the revoloutions of heavenly shperes. he was a math mathmatition, thought that we lived in a suncentered concept of a universe. -
Jan 29, 1543
andreas vesalius
Published in 1543, it was the world's first textbook of anatomy called De humani corporis fabrica. it was a great advancement in medical sciences and studies. -
francis bacon
Francis Bacon really did not invent anything himself. He invented the modern scientific enterprise. People see him as one of the most influential figures in science. -
galileo galilei
he was the very first european to make regular observations of the heavens using a teloscope. he was also a mathmatition. -
johannes kepler
Kepler demolished the Aristotelian cosmography of perfect forms and unknowable causes. -
rene descartes
René Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician, physicist, and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic. He has been dubbed the "Father of Modern Philosophy", and much of subsequent Western philosophy is a response to his writings, which continue to be studied closely to this day. -
william harvey
Harvey formally published and presented another set of findings in a publication called ‘The Anatomical Essay on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals’, which gave a thoroughly detailed account on how the circulatory system functioned -
robert boyle
Robert Boyle discovered Boyle's Law which states the relationship between gases, volume and pressure. -
margret cavendish
in France that Margaret met William Cavendish, the Duke of Newcastle, and they were married in 1645. then years later she published the blazing world in 1666 -
maria winkelmann
she was a profesional in anatomy she also discovered a comet. she was one of the most famous female astronamers in germany. -
isaac newton
isaac newton created many great things although one stuck out more than most. that was the teloscope that he made to look at the stars. it was a reflecting teloscope. -
Antoine Lavoisier
discovered oxygen in 1774 and published his findings the same year, three years before Scheele published. Antoine Lavoisier, a French chemist, also discovered oxygen in 1775, was the first to recognize it as an element, and coined its name "oxygen" - which comes from a Greek word that means “acid-former”.
