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1675 BCE
Robert Boyle
proved that air wasn't a basic element and proved alchemy that you cant turn everything into gold -
161 BCE
Ptolemy
Greek scholar geographer and astronomer believed of a geometric universe -
120
Hipparchus
an ancient Greek astronomer, He is considered the founder of trigonometry but is most famous for his incidental discovery of precession of the equinoxes. -
335
Aristotle
Aristotle, a Greek philosopher, foundered lyceum, a center for scientific and philosophical inquiry -
Mar 7, 1535
Nicolaus Copernicus
was a Polish astronomer. He wrote the book called On the Revolution of Celestial Spheres. This publish was what marked the beginning of the Scientific Revolution. -
Mar 7, 1572
Tycho Brahe
was a Danish astronomer. He was known for his very accurate records. He was also a man who observed everything carefully. He put lots of time into his work, and found 750 stars and charted their positions. -
Francis Bacon
was a English Philosopher. He was also a statesmen, jurist, and author. He was also an Attorney General and held the position of Lord Chancellor of England. He pursued science and his experiments in a systematic fashion. -
Zacharias Janssen
was a Dutch lens-maker. He was the first to invent the simple microscope. However, this was not intended for scientific use. -
Rene Descartes
was a Dutch philosopher. He was also a mathematician and writer. He also was a scientist and believed that people should establish proof of the beliefs they had. He believed that things people believed should agree with the natural world. -
Galileo
as undoubtedly one of the greatest scientists of the scientific revolution. He was the first person to study the sky with a telescope. He discovered craters and mountains on the moon. He also found the moons that orbited Jupiter. -
Evangelista Torricelli
was a Italian scientist. He was a physicist and mathematician. One of his important achievements was the invention of the barometer. -
Robert Hooke
discovered the cell -
Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek
was a Dutch scientist. He was the first to use the microscope for scientific purposes. He put some water from a pond under the microscope. As he looked, he found tiny plants and animals. -
Isaac Newton
was a English Scientist.s. He reviewed practically everything other scientists studied. He made theories, which were proven so many times that they called them laws. He had 4 of these laws. The first was the law of gravity. The other three were the laws of physics and motion. He also invented calculus. -
Johannes Kepler
researched to prove that planets orbited in a perfect circular shape. After careful observation, he found that the planets actually orbited in an elliptical or oval shape. He proved Copernicus was right.