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-Suggested scientists should use their experiments to learn about the natural world
-English monk and thinker |
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-Philosopher
-Came up with the geocentric theory
-Earth too heavy to move |
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-Astronomer
-Came up with the geocentric theory
-Earth too heavy to move |
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-Heliocentric theory
-Earth moved in a circular orbit around sun
-Published: On the Revolution of Heavenly Spheres |
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-Tested law of motions from the Tower of Pisa
-First to make observations with a telescope
-Discovered Jupiter had moons around it
-Published: Dialogue on Two Chief Systems of the World
-Threatened and forced to recant statements
-House arrest |
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-Built earliest modern observatory called Uraniborg
-Theory that Earth was the center but all the planets revolved around the sun which revolved around the Earth |
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-Law of Universal Gravitation
-Published: Principia Mathematica (explained why universe wasn't surrounded by crystal balls and why planets didn't crash into each other)
-Newton's Three Laws of Motion
-Compared universe to a giant clock |
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-Father of modern anatomy
-Published: The Structure of the Human Body; 1st textbook based on dissection |
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-Discovered blood circulates in the body and is pumped by the heart
-Published; On the Movement of the Heart and Blood in Animals |
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| -Used microscope to look at a fly's brain |
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-Binomial Nomenclature; system to classify plants and animals
-Published: Systema Naturae |
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-English politician and writer
-Urged people to use the scientific method
-Inductive method
-Published: The Advancement of Learning & Novum Organum |
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-Deductive method
-Reason out a law with logic
-Published: Disclosure on Method
-"I think therefore I am" |
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-Brahe's assistant
-3 laws of planetary motion
-believed in heliocentricity |
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-Boyle's Law: -PV=C
-Father of Modern Chemistry |
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| -Proved that air is not a single element |
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| Joseph Priestly & Antoine Lavoisier |
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-Priestly isolated oxygen in water
-Lavoisier identified 23 of the elements |
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| -44 volume of natural history published between 1749-1804 |
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-Father of Modern Electricity
-Found electrical charges in many substances
-Published: De Magnete; Earth is like a big magnet |
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| -Invented the lightning rod |
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| -Invented the storage battery |
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| -Published: The Theory of the Earth; Earth is changing over thousands of years |
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| -Published a table of logarithims |
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| William Oughtred & Edmund Wingate |
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| -Invented the slide rule ("primitive calculator") |
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