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theory by aristotle in 300 bc that said everything revolves around the earth
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geocentric theory
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time when people started to write their own ideas about the world and experiments to prove the theories right
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scientific revolution
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the 5 steps in science- problem, hypothesis, experiment, results, and conclusion- written by Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes
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scientific method
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man who believe experiments helped you to learn things and wrote the scientific method
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francis bacon
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man who thought reason was important and helped francis bacon write the scientific method; "i think therefore i am"
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rene descartes
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astronomer in poland that said that the geocentric theory was incorrect; wrote the heliocentric theory
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nicolaus copernicus
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theory by copernicus in the 1500s that said that the sun was the center of the universe
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heliocentric theory
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astronomer from denmark who discovered a supernova; also said that the sun revolved around the earth, but the planets revolve around the sun
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tycho brahe
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an exploding star seen from earth discovered by tycho brahe
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supernova
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a mathematician from germany who helped tycho brahe make a theory that said that the planets travel in an ellipse at different speeds
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johannes kepler
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suuporter of heliocentric theory; made the first telescope in italy; first to discover saturn, the craters on the moon, sunspots, and moons of jupiter; published Starry Messenger
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galileo Galilei
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brought together math, physics, and astronomy; wrote principia; created universal gravitational law; invented calculus
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isaac Newton
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philsopher from germany who came up with calculus the same time as newton
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gotfried von leibniz
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man whose works were looked at by other doctors because he thought that human bodies are like animal bodies
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galen
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man who said galen was incorrect and was famous for his works on anatomy after looking at deah bodies; helped wm harvey to learn about hearts
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andreas vesalius
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man helped by andreas to study the heart, blood, and circulatory system in the 1600s
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william harvey
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man who invented a microscope to look at things like bacteria and microorganisms
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anthony van leeuwenhoek
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physicist and inventor who looked at plants through a microscope and discovered cells
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robert hooke
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man aka "the father of modern chemistry' who wrote a law about temps, volume, and pressure; defined elements
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robert boyle
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discovered law of conservation of mass; named oxygen; made metric system; first periodic table of elements
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antoine- laurent lavoisier
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pope who put galileo on trial for believing in the heliocentric theory and placed him under house arrest in april 1633
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pope urban vii
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a chemical thought to have been let out during combustion but was proved wrong by antoine l.
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phlogiston
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people who believed that there were only 4 elements (earth, air,water, and fire) but were proved wrong by boyles law and antoine l.
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alchemists
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man who discovered carbon dioxide and used it to make carbonated drinks that helped boost energy
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joseph priestly
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