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Renaissance Scientists

Renaissance scientists

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Galileo
(1564 - 1642) Italian astronomer and physicist, demostrated the law of falling bodies, improved the telescope, observed the sky and confrimed the Copernican theory
Leeuwenhoek
(1632 -1723) Dutch naturalist, perfected the microscope, fundamental to study of microorganisms
Vesalius
(1514 - 1564) Flemish physician, careful dissection of the human body, founded the science pf anatomy
Copernicus
(1473 - 1543) Polish astronomer, Sun is the center of our solar system, Earth is one of several planets revolving around the Sun (Heliocentric), disproved the Ptolemic Theory of Earth being the center of the Universe (Geocentric)
Sir Isaac Newton
(1642 - 1727) English mathematician and astonomer, calculus, laws of light and color, law of motion, gravitation, wrote books to publicize writings
Harvey
(1578 - 1657) English physician, blood circulation in the body, science of medicine increased knowledge
Francis Bacon
(1561 - 1626) English philosoper, wrote books to popularize the scientific method
Kepler
(1571 - 1630) German astronomer and mathematician, determined planets follow and elliptical (no circular) orbit around the Sun, which helps explain satellite paths
Boyle
(1627 - 1691) English chemist, law of gases, pressure and volume relation, fundamental of modern chemistry, most likely number one on an IB kid's "Go Back in Time and Kill" list
Descartes
(1596 - 1650) French scientist/mathematician/philosopher, law of optics, analytical geometry, proof of one's existence = "I think, therefore I am."

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