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The very beginning
Science before the scientific revolution consisted of religious believes and magic and myths people believed to fill the blanks of what they didn't completely understand. People wanted new approaches to answer questions and a more organized process. -
1200
Roger bacon
Roger bacon was an English philosopher who studied at Oxford and Paris. He was the leading scholar of his time, He was one of the earliest people to favor the scientific experimentation. He was changed by the thinking of the time and he manly practiced alchemy. Bacon changed the scientific revolution by going away from his religion and practicing new things. -
1400
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. -
1500
Nicolaus Copernicus
Began to abandon Ptolemy geocentric theory and instead said that the sun was the center of the universe.Later on he began to realize that his theory explained many of the then -known facts about astronomy. When his theory was published no one payed attention to it because it didn't go with what there senses told them. This didn't have much of and effect on the scientific revolution because people chose to ignore it. -
1543
Harvey
Harvey made contributions using laboratory experiments to study the circulations of blood. He discovered how blood moved through the veins and arteries. He also observed the most important muscle of the body, the heart. -
Evangelista Torricelli
He was a physicist and mathematician he was famous for inventing the barometer. Torricelli was then appointed to succeed him as professor of mathematics at the Florentine Academy. -
Johannes Kepler
Kepler help Galileo prove Copernicus understanding of the universe. Some of the ideas that Copernicus based his theory off of which slowed Kepler down but he eventually proved this theory correct. To produce clear evidence that the earth moves around the sun. Along with Galileos experiment it was shun because the tools that they used to find good evidence were supposedly made by the devil. -
Francis Bacon
Francis bacon was an English man who came up with the idea that theory couldn't be trusted until they could be proven right with experiments. People used this book that he developed as a rubric or a foundation to later experiments. Francis bacon had an effect on the revolution because people used his ways even after he passed away. -
Galileo Galilei
Galileo was an Italian scientist helped prove Copernicus. Galileo was able to see things that no one has seen before like the "hills and the valleys of the moon." He read of a dutch devise that made objects and made his own- the telescope. He used his observations to argue that not everything revolves around the earth. His theory also was shun out because the telescope was the invention of the "devil." -
Rene Descartes
Descartes was a leader of the revolution, his advances in mathematics he felt that no exceptions should be accepted without any questioning. He based his reasoning off that he thought he could there fore he could which developed a questioning procedure that followed logical reasoning. -
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
He was a dutch scientist, he was the first to use the microscope for scientific purposes he used his microscope to figure out how bacteria and other small things thrived when they couldn't be seen by the human eye. -
Robert Boyle
Boyle was also extremely important to the scientific revolution, he created new ways to study different parts of science. He created a device that measures air, this was used in many experiments -
Issac Newton
Newton published a book on the work of Kepler, Copernicus, and Galileo it showed how they had shown that planets including the Earth rotated around the sun which Newton said was correct but they could not prove it. After many experiments and measurement he found out that the force that holds planets in the orbit is the same thing that makes objects fall. -
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
