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Mar 11, 1323
Nicholas Oresme (1323-1382)
An important late medieval scientist. Not all was dark before Copernicus. Oresme, Catholic Bishop of Lisieux, wrote on the nature of light, and invented coordinate geometry long before Descartes.
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Feb 19, 1473
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish Nicolaus copernicus, was an astronomer, scholar, scientist and matehmatician whom in the early 1500 proved wrong the belief that the earth was the center of the universe. He did this by establishing the concpet of a holeocentric solar system. Bibliogrpahy:
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May 17, 1543
Heliocentric
The term heliocentric describes the correct theory, first posed by Nicolas Copernicus, that the Earth is simply one of several planets which orbit the sun. this theory was found in a book that he made in 1543 "De revolutionibus" De revolutionibus
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Dec 24, 1543
Europe at the beginning of the scientific revolution
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Jan 22, 1561
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon was born on January 22, 1561 in London, England. Bacon served as attorney general and Lord Chancellor of England, resigning amid charges of corruption. His more valuable work was philosophical. Bacon took up Aristotelian ideas, and create the scientific method, which is the foundation of modern scientific inquiry. Biography.com Editors. (n.d.). Francis Bacon Biography. Retrieved August 15, 2016, from http://www.biography.com/people/francis-bacon-9194632 -
Galileo Galilei discoveries angered the Church
Galileo published his discoveries, but they angered the Church. The pope ordered Galileo to stand trial for his actions. In 1633 he was ordered to confess that Copernicus ideas were false. Article Title: 2.Effects of The Scientific Revolution - Changes of European Beliefs P4
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Issac Newton
Born on January 4, 1643, in Woolsthorpe, England, Isaac Newton was an established physicist and mathematician, and is credited as one of the great minds of the 17th century Scientific Revolution. With discoveries in optics, motion and mathematics, Newton developed the principles of modern physics. Biography.com Editors. (n.d.). Issac Newton. Retrieved August 15, 2016, from http://www.biography.com/people/isaac-newton-9422656 -
Europe at the end of the scientific revolution
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THEORY:NATURE OF SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS WAS PROPOSED
Kuhn developed a theory about the nature of scientific progress based upon radical innovations that mark a revolutionary disruption from earlier thinking.
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Rene Descartes
Descartes (1596-1650) was one of the greatest minds of the Scientific Revolution. The inventor of deductive reasoning, Descartes was a failure as a practical scientist, but a success as a mathematician, uniting number and form in his work Geometry, which described how the motion of a point could be mapped graphically by comparing its position to planes of reference.
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Edme Mariotte
A botanist of the seventeenth century, Edme Mariotte (1620-1684) sought to explain sap pressure in plants by describing a mechanism by which plants permit the entrance but not the exit of liquid. Sparknotes. (2016). Scientific revolution. Retrieved August 15, 2016, from http://www.sparknotes.com/history/european/scientificrevolution/terms.html
