Scientific Revolution

Roger Bacon

Jan 1, 1214

Roger Bacon was a scientist from England who thought up the scientific method. He came up with four central reasons for error: Reliance on faulty authority, Reliance on popular opinion, Reliance on personal bias, and Reliance on rational arguments. He put many of his idea into his famous book Opus Majus. Source

Nicolaus Copernicus

Feb 19, 1473

Nicolaus Copernicus was born in Poland. He was a brilliant mathematician and astromony. He came up with the heliocentric idea of the Earth not being the center of the universe,
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Andreas Vesalius

Dec 31, 1514

Andreas Vesalius, today better know as "The Founder of Modern HUman Anatomy" was a Flemish anatomist. He challenged the major workings of Greek physican Galen, and wrote De humani corporis fabrica libri septem or “The Seven Books on the Structure of the Human Body”
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Francis Bacon

Jan 22, 1561

Francis Bacon was an English statesman, philosopher, and scientist. He study learning and how people make progress. He re-evaluated the traditional learning system, and found it more benefical to focus on practical knowledge for “the use and benefit of men."
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Galileo Galilei

Feb 15, 1564

Galileo Galilei was a fantastic Italian scientist and mathematician. He conducted many expiriments and discorved many things, such as the Law of Pendulum and most famously the Galilean Moons of Jupiter.
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Johannes Kelper

Dec 27, 1571

Born in the Holy Roman Empire, (which was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor and Empire) He created a new comoslogical model of the solar system and new regular gemometric shapes.
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William Harvey

Apr 1, 1578

William Harvey, an English physican, fine tuned the theory of the way blood is pumped through the body. He was also the first noted scientist to suggest that mammels reproduced via sperm and egg.
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Rene Descartes

Mar 31, 1596

Born in France, Rene Descartes grew up to be a mathematician and philosopher. He revolutionized western philosophy, and he is most famous for the idea "Cogito ero sum" or "I think, therefore I am." He wrote several phliosophy books.
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Robert Boyle

Jan 25, 1627

This Irish scientist is today better known as "The Father of Modern Chemistry." He discovered the importance relating a vacuum and sound waves. He is most famous for "Boyle's Law." The gas law that states volume and pressure of a gas are inversely related.
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Issac Newton

Jan 4, 1643

Issac Newton was a professor in England at Cambridge. He is most famous for his discovery of gravity, his laws of motion, and his theories about a new form of mathematics, calculus. Source