Renaissance Scientists and Inventors
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- John Napier
- logarithm tables(1614)
- Evangelista Torricelli
- mercury barometer (1643)
- Thomas Savery
- steam engine (1698)
- Tycho Brache
- discovered that the planets orbited the sun and the sun orbited the earth.
- William Harvey
- a doctor, wrote a book called "De motu cordis" (on the movement of the heart and blood)
- Edmund Halley
- knowledge of astronomy and magnetism.
- Johannes Kepler
- discovered the the planets orbits the sun but not in a circular motion.
- Nicholas Copernicus
- heliocentric theory
- Blaise Pascal
- calculator (1642)
- Andreas Vesalius
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he published a book named "The Fabric of the Human Body".
- Johannes Gutenberg
- printing press (1450s)
- Paracelsus
- he found the early form of Homeopathy
- Mercator
- Map maker
- Galileo
- telescope (1592)
- Robert Hooke
- microscopes (1665)
- Francis Bacon
- had different scientific methods in a series of essays and books.
- Leonardo Da Vinci
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a famous painter, scientist,sculptor, musician,architect,and and ingenious inventor. He is well known for his painting the "Mona Lisa".
- Christian Huygens
- pedulum clock (1656)
- Isaac Newton
- reflecting telescope (1668)
- Marcello Malpighi
- he found the tiny linking vessels(capillaries)
- Robert Boyle
- studied the nature on vacuum(a vacuum is a closed space from which everything, including air, has been removed.)
- John Ray
- a Botanist
- Rene' Descartes
- studied mathematics and philosophy