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Nicklaus Copernicus |
Polish clergyman 1473-1543 began the revolution in astronomy by publishing "On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres", he attacked Ptolemaic account arguing that the Earth and other planets revolve around the sun. |
He said that the Earth and other planets revolve around the sun |
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Sir Francis Bacon |
English Protestant politician 1561-1626 he represented the scientific method (reason through observation and experiential research, and deductive reasoning from self evident principles, be attacked ancient writers. |
He represented scientific method |
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Issac Newton |
English natural philosopher 1642-1727 wrote Principia Mathematica 1687, he was the forerunner of physics |
An apple fell on his head |
