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350 BCE
Aristotle
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and scientist who came up with the first explanations of magic and beliefs. Because of Aristotle many people believed in his methods for thousands of years. He kept people from being shown the truth of science. He lead people to think the way that Alchemists and Astrologers believed for over 2,000 years until people like Roger Bacon came along to change the world's thinking of science. -
Period: 350 BCE to 1500
Alchemists and Astrologers
These groups made the bases for BC science even into the 1500s. Alchemists classified science as spells and magic. They used magical formulas to change a substance to a different substance. Astrologers had beliefs that there is a relationship between the placement of the stars and human life. These theories may not seem like people would follow them and live life thinking that way, but the main thing that stood in the way of the revolution was the beliefs from them almost 2,000 years before. -
1200
Roger Bacon's Discoveries
Roger Bacon was a philosopher and scientist who help start the scientific revolution, before the Renaissance. Roger Bacon challenged the sciences and magic that everyone believed. He didn't believe the natural explanations that Aristotle proposed and needed to find out for himself. He conducted his own experiments and studies to understand the science behind the magic. People like philosopher and scientist Bacon lead the scientific revolution which lead to the Renaissance. -
1490
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci was a main attraction in the renaissance as a great artist. To be a better artist of people he studied the human body and how it works to better paint the wonders of the body. He once said "I advise you not to trouble with words unless you are speaking to blind man." By this saying he showed that observations are better shown if they are in drawing. Explaining findings is hard, but showing them is easy. People started to use this method to record their scientific discoveries. -
Period: 1500 to
Scientific Method
The scientific method was a method developed within the scientific revolution to better advance the study of science for future centuries. This method is coming to conclusions about what scientist or philosophers have found in their research using tools and completed repeated experiments to test the data. They used tools that were new to the time like microscopes and telescopes. This method made it so that scientists could complete their experiments more quickly and so they had actuate data. -
1543
Nicolaus Copernicus
Copernicus was an astronomer that changed the way people thought about the way the universe and solar system work. He created a theory that challenged the theory that the solar system was centered around the earth.His theory still stands today that the solar system sun-centered. People didn't believe his because they couldn't see or feel the earth moving and they could see the sun more across the sky throughout the day. Back then if people couldn't comprehend the theory they wouldn't believe. -
1543
Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius help start the study of anatomy in the modern ages. He rethought the descriptions previously given of the human body. He created his own experiments and observing methods to study how the human body was constructed and how the body worked together. At this time he published a book called "On the Fabric of the Human Body" that entailed very detailed drawings of the body for back then. This book changed people's thinking of the human body because when they saw it they believed it. -
Harvey William
Harvey William was much like Andreas Vesalius, but he studied the circulatory system instead. More spicificly he studied the circulation of blood throughout the body and the paths like veins and arteries. Within that system he studied one of the most important muscles, the heart. William also used the same statigies to find and display his work so the people who didn't belive would be able to imagine the study of the circulatory system and where and how it works for them personally. -
Johannes Kepler
Kepler co-confirmed Copernicus theory about the solar system. Kepler had used observations, models, math, and thought to finally prove the theory. Though throughout the research he also found that not all of the theory was correct because Copernicus didn't have the tools and strategies that they had in the 1600s. In 1609 he publish a book of his findings of the planets and universe. He proved that theories from BC need to be tested and proved so that humans understand the world better. -
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon was a philosopher and scientist that was living through the turn of the 16th century at a little more than 30 years old. (39). Bacon had beliefs that would change the way many people found science. He believed that you could only make a scientific discoveries from observations and repeated trials that support a theory. He published a novel about his scientific findings in 1620. He showed the world that for a theory to be true it needs to happen all the time. -
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei worked on Kepler's theory to gather more evidence that the earth orbits the sun. Galileo made his own telescope for research so that he could observe parts of the universe no one had ever seen. Galileo challenge religious beliefs that heaven was around the earth in some way and that is why many wouldn't accept his findings. In 1632 he published their ideas and they created disagreements because of religious reasons and many even thought he went against what the Bible stated. -
René Descartes
René was a philosopher and mathematician like many in the revolution, but he was one of the main leaders of the concepts and beliefs in science. All leaders of the revolution including René
thought that no conclusions should be drawn until the earlier beliefs have been questioned and tested. Unlike some others he thought that assumptions needed to be proven by known facts at the time and just common sense. He challenged previous thoughts by not judging any conclusions based on prior knowledge, -
Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle, a scientist of chemistry, in particular he studied the compositions of matter. In 1662 made his findings and published them about the relationship between temperature, pressure, and the space of a gas. He changed how people thought about states of elements and how they act and react. This most likely helped other people understand their daily life and why certain things happen and others don't. -
Isaac Newton
Newton put together Copernicus's, Kepler's, and Galileo's work to publish a book about the universe in 1687. Newton made one of the biggest contributions to science then and still today concepts that are being thought. He made a law of universal gravity that states that every object attacks to another and also the laws of motion and how to measure motions and gravitational attraction. Newton changed the way people see the world around them and led others to do their own experiments of the world. -
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier changed the worlds thinking about elements and proved that some things that people thought were elements aren't. Lavoisier made a big discovery that matter that no matter what form or whether you can see it or not the matter will always exist and never be created or destroyed. He discovered these laws in the late 1700s and in that time the scientific revolution had spread in Europe and his discoveries made understanding on chemistry unlike many others.
