History Immediata People of the Scientific Rev.
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- Rene Descartes
- used mathmatic and logic for science
- Denis Diderot
- made the first Encyclopedia
- Antoine Lavoisier
- discovered oxygen
- Francis Bacon
- beleived in the experimental method
- Voltaire
- fought intolerence,prejudice, and superstition
- William Harvey
- wrote a book which talked about the hear and circuiltory system
- Isaac Newton
- theory of motion
- Joseph II
- legal reforms and freedom to the press, freedom to worship, abolished surfdom and made pesants be paid in cash
- Andres Celsius
- created another scale for mercury thermometer
- Andreas Vesalius
- dissected a human corpse
- Anton Von Leeunwenhoek
- observed bacteria and red blood cells in microscope discovered magots and grubs dont magically apear
- Joseph Priestley
- seperated pure gas from air
- Fredrick the Great
- religious freedom, reduced censorship, improved education, reformend judicial system and abolished torture, and the "servent to the state"
- John Locke
- natural rights- liberty,life, and property, people should govern their own affairs
- Tycho Brahe
- recorded planitary movements
- Roberty Boyle
- founder of modern chemistry
- Thomas Hobbes
- social contract, people should give up rights to a strong ruler
- Galileo Galilei
- law of pendulum, falling objects, built telescope, laws of motion, and discovered Jupiter has 4 moons, moons and the sun have dark spots
- Gabreil Fahrenheit
- made first therometer to use mercury in glass
- Baron de Montesquieu
- seperation of power, beleived in balance
- Cathrine the Great
- made comission to review Russias laws, improved life of pesants
- Emilie du Chatelet
- translated Nrewtons work into French
- Johannes Kepler
- laws of planetary motion from Brahe's work
- Cesare Bonesana Beccaria
- wanted to improve judicial system and against torture and capital punsihment
- Zacharias Janssen
- microscope
- Madame Geoffrin
- hosted parties
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- wanted equal educational rights for women
- Evangelista Torricelli
- mercury barometer
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- heliocentric theory
- Edward Jenner
- vaccine to cure small pox
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
- indivdual freedom, civs have corrupted mans inner goodness