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- Rene Descartes
- He invented analytical geometry and is famous for the statement "I think, therefore I am"
- Andreas Vesalius
- He defied French law by dissecting human bodies, contradicting many beliefs about human anatomy.
- Francis Bacon
- This philosopher helped develop the scientific method.
- Galileo Galilei
- His belief that the earth was not the center of the universe (based on observations with his telescope) was banned by the Catholic church.
- Isaac Newton
- He revolutionized European thinking by applying the scientific method to math and science.
- He wrote "Principia" to mathematically explain the universe
- Newton
- Robert Hooke
- He discovered the cell.
- William Harvey
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He discovered how the circulatory system works.
- Robert Boyle
- He criticized alchemists, proved there were more than four basic elements, and defined elements as something that cannot be broken down into simpler parts.
- Priestley and Lavoisier
- They studied the properties of air and its elements.
- Alchemists
- These early chemists were much like sorcerors and believed in the existence of only four basic elements.
- Hypothesis
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Theories that attempt to explain a set of facts
(Your expected result) - Nicolaus Copernicus
- A Polish astronomer who theorized that the earth was round and rotated on an axis around the sun.
- Johannes Kepler
- He mathematically proved Copernicus's theories that the earth was round and rotated on an axis while circling the sun; he also found that it "circled" on an oval path.
- He invented calculus
- Newton