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Period: Feb 19, 1473 to May 24, 1543
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish Mathematician and astronomer Copernicus was is considered the "Founder of Modern Astronomy", and his Helicopter Model laid the foundation of the scientific revolution. -
Period: 1493 to Sep 24, 1541
Paracelsus
He introduced chemistry and new minerals into the field of medicine, he had an iconoclastic rebellion against the conservative medical orthodoxy during the Scientific Revolution he used therapeutic medicine of mercury instead of traditional medicine. -
Period: Dec 31, 1514 to Oct 15, 1564
Andreas Vesalius
Flemish anatomist and physician Vesalius was instrumental in making anatomy an empirical science and presenting the results of his work in an incredible new way, he was the first person to dissect a human during the Science Revolution and he is named the "Father of Modern Anatomy." -
Period: Dec 14, 1546 to
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer Brahe, fixed positions of stars with his bare eyes, fixed the Copernican tables and he was one of the only critical thinkers during the Scientific Revolution. -
Period: Jan 22, 1561 to
Francis Bacon
English philosopher and statesman served as Lord Chancellor of England from 1618 to 1621 he is considered the "Father of the Scientific Method", he challenged the Aristotelian philosophy and shifted the focus of scientists to experimentation during the Scientific Revolution. -
Period: Feb 15, 1564 to
Galileo Galilei
Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer Galilei invented a Hydrostatic Balance, he created a forerunner to the modern thermometer, during the Scientific Revolution he discovered the mountains on the moon, the spots of the sun and the four moons of Jupiter with a telescope. -
Period: Dec 27, 1571 to
Johannes Kepler
German astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer Kepler, discovered that a planet moved at different speeds according to their distance from the sun, and he also discovered that the planets move in elliptical orbits around the sun, he was a leading astronomer of the Scientific Revolution creating the Laws of Planetary Motion. -
Period: Jan 1, 1578 to
William Harvey
English Physician Harvey, was the first to find the circulation of the blood, and his theories were greatly used during the Scientific Revolution. -
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Rene Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist Rene wrote one of the most influential works of modern philosophy, he invented the influential Cartesian coordinate system he also created analytical geometry and introduced skepticism as an essential part of the scientific method which sparked scientists during the Scientific Revolution. -
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Margaret Cavendish
English aristocrat, philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction-writer, and playwright Margaret the Duchess of Newcastle helped popularise the ideas of the Science Revolution, she argued that theology is outside the paraments of scientific inquiry, she also wrote plays about the atomic theory. -
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Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor Boyle, created Boyle's Law, and by many, he is considered to be the "Father of Modern Chemistry" he helped found the Royal Society, and he was a leading scientist and intellectual of the Scientific Revolution. -
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John Locke
British philosopher, Oxford academic and medical researcher Locke wrote one of the most influential works in philosophy, he is regarded as the founder of the modern philosophical empiricism, he was a key advocate of the empirical approaches of the Scientific Revolution. -
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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Duch microscopist Leeuwenhoek was the first to observe bacteria and protozoa, he was named the "Father of Microbiology" he laid the foundations for plant anatomy and made over 500 microscopes his invention was crucial to the Scientific Revolution. -
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Issac Newton
English mathematician. physicist, astronomer. theologian and author Newton created the three laws of motion, he was the first to first to formulate the notion of gravity it was one of the most important works in the history of science and one of the most innovative during the Science Revolution and he was the leading figure of the Scientific Revolution. -
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Maria Sibylla Merian
Maria was a Swiss naturalist and natural artist, her works on the illustration of the transformations of insects through metamorphosis contributed to the advance of entomology, her illustrations were remarkable for scientific quality and were extremely accurate. -
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Pierre Bayle
French philosopher, writer, and historian Bayle wrote an encyclopedic work which was highly influential he can be seen as the forerunner of the age of the Enlightenment, after the Scientific Revolution he was a protestant. -
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David Hume
Scottish philosopher, historian economist, and essayist Hume is known for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism, his empirical argument against British mercantilism formed a building block for classical economics Hume's can be read as nan attempt to bring together the optimistic consequences of the Scientific Revolution with a conservative anthropology.