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Sir Francis Bacon- (1561-1626) |
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| began the primacy of observation and experimentation. Began the use of the inductive method of reasoning for solving problems, and gave his new attitude towards nature. |
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Tycho Brahe- (1546 –1601) |
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| Danish nobleman known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations. Brahe was well known in his lifetime as an astronomer and alchemist. As an astronomer, Tycho worked to combine what he saw as the geometrical benefits of the Copernican system with the philosophical benefits of the Ptolemaic system into his own model of the universe, the Tychonic system. From 1600 until his death in 1601, he was assisted by Johannes Kepler, who later used Tycho's astronomical information to develop his own theories of astronomy. |
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Nicolaus Copernicus- (1473-1543) |
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| Polish philosopher and astronomer who rejected the geocentric theory, that the sun and planets revolve around the earth, and argued for the heliocentric theory, that the earth and other planets revolve around the sun. |
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Rene Descartes- (1596-1650) |
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| French philosopher and mathematician who advocated the use of deductive reasoning to discover truth. |
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Galileo- (1564-1642) |
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| Italian Renaissance mathematician and astronomer whose work disproved the geocentric theory, which held that the earth is the center of the solar system. He produced evidence supporting the heliocentric theory, which claimed that the sun is the center, but the papacy ultimately forced him to recant his views under the threats of torture. |
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Johannes Kepler- (1571-1630) |
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| scientist who persuasively proved that Copernicus’s idea of planetary motion was correct by using data gathered by Tycho Brahe. He also showed that the motion of the planets was due to the force of gravity. |
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Gottfried Leibniz- (1646–1716) |
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| He invented the binary system, foundation of virtually all modern computer architectures. In philosophy, he is mostly remembered for optimism, i.e. his conclusion that our universe is, in a restricted sense, the best possible one God could have made. He was, along with René Descartes and Baruch Spinoza, one of the three greatest 17th-century rationalists, but his philosophy also looks back to the scholastic tradition which anticipated modern logic and analysis. He also to made large contributions to physics and technology |
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Isaac Newton- (1642-1727) |
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| English scientist and mathematician who established the laws of motion, which constituted the foundation of physics up until the work of Albert Einstein |
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Baruch Spinoza- (1632 –1677) |
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| Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Jewish origin. He is considered one of the great rationalists of 17th-century philosophy, laying the groundwork for the 18th century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism. |
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Andreas Vesalius- (1514-1564) |
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| the founder of modern biological science who published his work on the fabric of the human body. |
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