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100
Ptolemy
He was an Egyptian, astronomer, Machination and geographer. Not a lot is known about his work, however he said that the earth was geocentric, in other words the earth was in the center of the universe and all the plaints revolved around it. This changed peoples thinking by thinking that the earth was in the center of the universe. This also inspired people to think out of the box and experiment new things. -
500
Alchemists and Astrologers
the nearest thing individuals needed to science were common scholars. They put stock in religious thinking and Greek and Roman plans to clarify things about human instinct and science. This is helpful in the fact that it was the begin of science and individuals endeavoring to discover things about mankind and the universe. -
1200
Roger Bacon
Francis Bacon was a monk who questioned the old ways of science. Rather than just believing the religious sayings and Roman and Greek sayings he used science experiments to test the old sayings. This challenged people to think and question things they thought they knew about the world. He was a individual since he was the begin of the Scientific Method and affected numerous different researchers after him. Because of him, everything was mankind. -
1500
The Renaissance
The Renaissance was a period in European history, from the 14th to the 17th century, regarded as the cultural bridge between the Middle Ages and modern history. This was also encouraged curiosity, investigation, discovery and nature in everyday life. -
1500
The New Study Of Nature
Scientists started to observe things that did not match the older explanation, because of this all the scientists started to question ancient beliefs. They used three new tools, Scientific instruments, mathematics and experiments. This helped us all know the real truth. This new approach to study and knowledge was the start of the Scientific Revolution. -
1500
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
He used a microscope to discover bacteria witch had never been seen by a human eye. He also was a Dutch businessman, scientist, and one of the notable representatives of the Golden Age of Dutch science and technology. He helped people discover what bacteria was and if he didn't do this we wouldn't know a lot about our body and more. -
1543
Nicolaus Copernicus
He was a Renaissance and a mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe. He changed the way people thought about how the universe was made and how it looked. This was a very brave thing that he did because the church disapproved what he was doing because they wanted all the power and everyone was supposed to believe what the church said to believe. This was big because he changed ways people thought. -
1543
Andreas Vesalius
Vesalius was a scientist who studied anatomy. He refused to believe the descriptions of the body written by Galen who wrote them 1,400 years later. He did his own studies and eventually published a book on how the human body was constructed. This challenged people to think newly about how the body looked like and how it was constructed. It also helped give the readers a visual understanding. -
1543
William Harvey
William Harvey was also a scientist who studied anatomy. He used lab experiments, he studied blood circulation. He studied and showed everybody how blood moved through the heart and arteries. He also studied how the heart worked. This changed peoples way of thinking about the body and how it worked. He Stated that the Circulatory System was on continuous flow of blood and not separate systems. He had challenged the view of one, allowing others to learn from him and be encouraged by his thoughts. -
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler, the idea of planetary motion. Kepler not only adamantly defended Copernicus, he also revealed that their paths were not perfect circles. His descriptions of planetary motions became known as Kepler’s laws. Kepler realized that the planets traveled in kind of stretched out circles known as ellipses. These three laws of planetary motion were able to change the way people looked at their homes. They perspectives changed a bit because of Kepler's science and Copernicus' theory. -
Galileo Galilei
Italian scientist and scholar Galileo made observations that laid the foundation for modern physics and astronomy. Understandings from his discoveries, and in the methods he developed and the use of mathematics to prove them. As a result he invented the telescope and the microscope. He played a role in the scientific revolution and earned the moniker (The Father of Modern Science.) Galileo's opposition towards the bible and religious views encouraged a new bold standpoint. -
Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes was a french philosopher and mathematician was a leader of the Scientific Revolution. Descartes' ideas led to advancements in science, philosophy, and math. He said that no assumption should be accepted without question. He said all assumptions should be proved using known facts. He also explained how the universe operated like a machine he used the basic laws of physics to explain this. -
The New Science
These new discoveries effected all of Europe. The schools and societies devoted to science appeared in Rome, England and France. This changed the way people thought about science. -
Robert Boyle
Robert is a critical persona of the scientific revolution because he was a pioneer of modern chemistry. Boyle was in the discovery of Oxygen, along with scientist Robert Hooke. Boyle proved that only a part of the air is used in respiration and combustion. Boyle also liked to work on studying atomic matter. Boyle's discovery of oxygen lead to Boyle's new law (PV=k). He was able to change the way others looked upon their surroundings, because of the way he changed math and science. -
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton was an English scientist who published building on Copernicus' theory. Kepler, Copernicus, and Galileo could not explain how the planets orbited the sun so Newton did. Newton did many experiments and realized that the force which held the planets in their orbits and the force that causes objects to fall on Earth were the same. This force was gravity. He also explained the laws of motion. Newton was able to tie the movement of all things in the sky and on Earth. -
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley was an 18th-century English theologian, English Dissenters clergyman, natural philosopher, chemist, innovative grammarian, multi-subject educator, and liberal political theorist who published over 150 works. One of the things that he discovered was the element oxygen. This changed peoples thoughts about science and it informs people about oxygen. -
Antonie Lavoisier
He showed people that fire resulted when a substance rapidly combined with oxygen, and that it was not an element. Then he proved that matter can change form but can not be destroyed by mixing steam with the air and observing how it turns invisible. Lavoisier was a very important scientists because he cleared up many misunderstandings and paved the way for modern chemistry.
