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Ptolemy
Ptolemy wrote several scientific treatises, three of which were of importance to later Byzantine, Islamic and European science. The first is the astronomical treatise now known as the Almagest, although it was originally entitled the Mathematical Treatise and then known as the Great Treatise -
Period: 1200 to
Scientific Revolution
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1250
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon was an English philosopher and Franciscan friar who placed considerable emphasis on the study of nature through empiricism. In the 1200s bacon sparked the scientific revolution. He was an alchemist which is a scientist that uses dark magic in his work. He used experiments and mathematics to understand mysteries. this new approach that bacon had produce answers that no one had gotten be fore it answered questions in physics, astronomy and anatomy. -
1500
Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius was a 16th-century Flemish anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, De humani corporis fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body). This book aided the Scientific Revolution greatly by helping the reader gain a visual understanding of the many different components of the human body and how they work together. -
1543
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus was born on February 19, 1473 in Torun, Poland. Nicolaus Copernicus was one of the first people to question their religious teachings and ancient beliefs, and actually try to prove his thinking. Nicolaus Copernicus created the Heliocentric theory, this theory was the basis to a new understanding of our planets and the sun. Nicolaus Copernicus's theory stated that the planets revolved around the sun. Nicolaus Copernicus created a solid basis for our new understand of planets. -
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler was a German astronomer who discovered three major laws of planetary motion. (1) the planets move in elliptical orbits with the Sun at one focus; (2) the time necessary to traverse any arc of a planetary orbit is proportional to the area of the sector between the central body and that arc (the “area law”); and (3) there is an exact relationship between the squares of the planets’ periodic times and the cubes of the radii of their orbits (the “harmonic law”). -
Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe was a Danish nobleman known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations. He was born in the then Danish peninsula of Scania -
Galileo Galilei
Galileo was a very revolutionary figure in the Scientific Revolution, because of his improvements on the telescope. Galileo used the modern technology of the time to prove Copernicus’s Heliocentric theory and fill in the explanations he could not find. Galileo's findings lead to new discoveries of the time and helped play a crucial part in the advancements in the scientific revolution,. -
Rene Descartes
René Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. Dubbed the father of modern western philosophy, much of subsequent Western philosophy is a response to his writings, which are studied closely to this day. -
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, PC KC was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author. He served both as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England. -
William Harvey
William Harvey was a physician that disagreed with the ancient and religious beliefs about how the human body works. Harvey’s greatest achievement was to recognize that the blood flows rapidly around the human body, being pumped through a single system of arteries and veins, and to support this hypothesis with experiments and arguments. -
Robert Boyle
He is best known for Boyle's law, which describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas, if the temperature is kept constant within a closed system. Among his works, The Sceptical Chymist is seen as a cornerstone book in the field of chemistry. -
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a German polymath and philosopher who occupies a prominent place in the history of mathematics and the history of philosophy, having developed differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton -
Isaac Newton
During his lifetime Newton developed the theory of gravity, the laws of motion (which became the basis for physics), a new type of mathematics called calculus, and made breakthroughs in the area of optics such as the reflecting telescope. These discovery's and new ways of thinking helped explain many unsolved mystery's of the universe. This is what made Newton one of the most important figures in the scientific revolution to ever live. -
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley FRS 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. -
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier was a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and who had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.
