People Of The Scientific Revolution

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Francis Bacon

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one of the great philosophers of the Scientific Revolution. thoughts on logic and ethics in science, ideas on the cooperation and interaction of the various fields of science

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Giovanni Borelli

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the foremost thinker of the era on human mechanics

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Robert Boyle

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successful physicist at Oxford college, worked with his colleague Robert Hooke to discern the properties of the air, experimenting with air pressure and the composition of the atmosphere

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Tycho Brahe

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a great astronomical observer, and made accurate and long-term records of his observations, from which he derived his view of the structure of the solar system, in which the moon and sun orbited the Earth and the remaining planets orbited the sun.

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Otto Brunfels

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the first to produce a major work on plants.

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Giordano Bruno

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A renegade Italian monk, laid out his philosophy that the universe was of infinite size, and that the Earth, sun, and planets were all moving constantly within it, and were by no means located at its center.

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Nicolas Copernicus

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an avid student of astronomy, revolutionary notion that the Earth orbited the sun.

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Rene Descartes

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one of the greatest minds of the Scientific Revolution. The inventor of deductive reasoning, success as a mathematician, uniting number and form in his work Geometry, which described how the motion of a point could be mapped graphically by comparing its position to planes of reference.

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Leonard Fuchs

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A Botanist of the sixteenth century, produced a guide to collecting medical plants that is considered a landmark in the history of natural observation.

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Galileo

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the most successful scientist of the Scientific Revolution, save only Isaac Newton. He studied physics, specifically the laws of gravity and motion, and invented the telescope and microscope.

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Samuel Hartlib

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a London scientist and socialite, first conceived of the creation of the Royal Society of London

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William Harvey

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Through dissection, was the first to demonstrate that the circulation of blood through the human body is continuous, rather than consisting of different types circulating through the veins and arteries

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Johannes Kepler

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studied the orbits of the planets and sought to discern some grand scheme that defined the structure of the universe according to simple geometry come up with the laws of planetary motion, which explained the orbital properties of planets, and factored extensively into Isaac Newton's later work

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Edme Mariotte

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botanist of the seventeenth century, sought to explain sap pressure in plants by describing a mechanism by which plants permit the entrance but not the exit of liquid.

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Marcello Malpighi

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well known microscopist, studied insects in depth and developed a theory of plant circulation which, though flawed, inspired interest in the field.

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John Napier

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invented the mathematical tool of logarithms.

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Isaac Newton

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Perhaps the most influential scientist of all time, took the current theories on astronomy a step further and formulated an accurate comprehensive model of the workings of the universe based on the law of universal gravitation.

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Simon Stevin

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worked with geometry during the late sixteenth century, applying it to the physics of incline planes and the hydrostatic surface tension of water. Additionally, he introduced the decimal system of representing fractions

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Evangelista Torricelli

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invented the barometer, to measure air pressure

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Jan Baptist van Helmont

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was an alchemist, experimented on the role of water in the growth of plants, claiming that plants drew all of their substance from water, demonstrated that gases, though they commonly appeared quite similar, could be quite different in character. invented the word "gas."

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Otto von Guericke

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invented the air pump, and did the first experiments with vacuums. In the process he demonstrated many of the properties of gases, such as the (until then) disputed claim that they did, in fact, have weight.

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Andreas Vesalius

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a student and professor in Belgium and Paris, was educated in the anatomical works and theories of the ancient Greek physician Galen, whose views on anatomy had long been the standard in Europe.

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Francois Viete

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was one of the first to use letters to represent unknown numbers. In 1591, he invented analytical trigonometry using this algebraic method.

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John Wallis

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was the first mathematician to apply mathematics to the operation of the tides, and also invented the symbol used to denote infinity.