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- Johannes Kepler
- He discovered the laws of planetary motion, including the important fact of elliptical orbits
- Aristotle
- This famous Greek thinker's ideas about nature were at the center of the medieval cosmology that Ptolemy solidified with his geocentric theory
- Hermetic Literature
- This tradition emphasized the mathematical and magical characteristics of nature
- Robert Boyle
- This English scientist argued that students of chemistry should do lots of experiments; he also favored an atomic theory of matter
- Spinoza
- This jewish thinker was accused by his contemporaries of being an atheist because according to them he read and thought too much about science
- Ptolemy
- Produced the Almagest, a handbook of greek astronomy based on the theories of Aristotle
- Neo-Platonists
- In addition to the humanist study was the study of philosophy, mthematics, music , greek and latin and Arabic. The were a revival of Plato
- Copernicus
- Broke the tradtional truth thought in universities, and be came convinced that the sun was at the center of the universe. He undermined the system of medievak cosmology and made possible the birth of modern astronomy
- tycho Brahe
- he built the finest observatory in europe, practicing astronomer
- Principica Mathematica
- Iaac newton published his findings in this successful book. It marked monumental achievements in the history of science
- Isaac newton
- formulated the mathematics or the unicersal law of gravitaion and the nature of light. He is aslo accredited for his 3 laws that explained matter and motion
- Paracelsus
- introduced the concept of diagnostic medicine. His treatments relied on chemicals instead of bloodletting and astromical positioning
- Andreas Vesalius
- Belgian surdeon who publised the structure of the human body. He argued for the observation of the body by anatomical dissection
- William Harvey
- announced that he had discovered the circulation of blood, he compared the heart to a mechanical pump
- Francis Bacon
- magical and mythical arts, he argued that science need to be open
- Madame Du chatelet
- she tanslated the principia into french which allowed the newtonian science into france