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Nicolas Copernicus
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Polish astronomer who proposed the theory that Earth and the other planets revolve around the sun.
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Tycho Brahe
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Danish astronomer whose astronomical observations formed the basis for Kepler's laws of planetary motion.
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Johannes Kepler
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He formulated three laws to describe how the planets revolve around the sun.
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Galileo Galilei
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The first to use a telescope to study the stars; demonstrated that different weights fall at the same rate.
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Sir Isaac Newton
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English mathematician and scientist who invented differential calculus and the theory of universal gravitation.
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Galen
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Greek physician and writer. His theories formed the basis of European medicine until the Renaissance.
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Paracelsus
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Credited with developing a mineral-based chemical approach to human health problems.
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Margaret Cavendish
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She criticized the theories of the Royal Society of London and Thomas Hobbes.
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Maria Winkelmann
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She discovered the comet of 1702.
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Rene Descartes
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Considered the father of analytic geometry and the founder of modern rationalism.
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Cartesian Dualism
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The doctrine that to every mental change there is a concomitant but causally unconnected physical change.
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Francis Bacon
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Proposed a theory of scientific knowledge that came to be known as the inductive method.
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Benedict de Spinoza
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Dutch philosopher and theologian whose best-known work is Ethics (1677).
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Blaise Pascal
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French mathematician, philosopher and inventor. Invented the adding machine and syringe.
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The English Royal Society
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English society through which the British government has supported science.
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French Royal Academy of Sciences
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Founded in 1666 by Louis XIV to encourage French scientific research.
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Hermeticism
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Works produced within this movement are characterized by unorthodox structure and illogical sequences.
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