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Sep 24, 1541
Paracelsus
More InfoWas the "creator" of the scientific revolution because of his theory that illness is a outside desease attacking the body. (Former thinking was that it was an imbalance of the blood or other bodily fluids) Paracelsus created medicines out of herbs and chemical remidies. -
May 24, 1543
NIcolaus Copernicus
More InfoProposed the his heliocentric theory that stated that sun is in the center of the galaxy with the planets traveling around the sun. -
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Johannes Kepler
More InfoImproved upon Copernicus' heliocentric thoery (planets move around the sun) by stating that the planets move, not in cicrles, but in an elipse shape. He also wrote the mathmatical laws for the movement of the planets -
Galileo Galilei
More InfoHe created the first telescope and used this telescope to prove Kepler's math about the movements of the planets. He also allegedly did a study on how gravity affects objects of different mass by dropping two very different sized rocks from the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa and by rolling them down an incline. His ideas were correct that they would fall/roll at the same speed. -
William Harvey
More Info Created and porved his theory that the blood circulates through the body and the heart is the main pump that circulates the regenerated blood. -
Blaise Pascal
More InfoCreated Pascals triagnle, a helpful tool in the world of mathmatics. He also created the first mechanical calculator. -
Margaret Cavendish
More InfoWrote "Observations upon Experimental Philosophy" and "Grounds of Natural Philosophy". In these works she was especially critical of the growing belief that humans, through science, were the masters of nature -
Benedict de Spinoza
More InfoHe had of the belief that there is no "dualism" between God and the world; we dont have to go far to find some part of God. God moves and lives in nature; the whole of it, the entire universe is God. -
Isaac Newton
More InfoUsed a prism to show that light was made up of all the colors of the rainbow, disproving the Ancient Greeks ideas about light. Useing this knowledge, he constructed a successfull telescope useing a curved lens. Later in life, he was able to prove the theory about gravity and motion and puplished his 3 laws of motion and his findings about gravity.
