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12 Cards in this Set
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Copernicus |
1473-1543 heliocentric theory |
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Kepler |
1574-1630 Elliptical orbit law of areas |
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Galileo |
1564-1642 Concept of inertia (but round) projectile motion |
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Gilbert |
1544-1603 magnets form goes with magnetism |
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van Helmont |
1580-1644 pneumatic chemistry tree experiment naturalist/immortal view on world spontaneous generation |
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Gassendi |
1592-1655 atomist combined works to form compilation believed in vacuum attempted to explain invisible machine |
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Descartes |
1595-1650 Plentum(vortex) 7 laws of impact atomist, everything is just particles colliding |
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Boyle |
1627-1691 air is elastic, like a spring help with concept of pressure |
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Pascal |
1623-1662 Glass blower experiment with mercury atmosphere drive column down sent brother in law to mountain |
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Torricelli |
1608-1647 the barometer mercury stands 29 inches torricelli vacuum |
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Newton |
1642-1727 new concept of color, angle of refraction white light is the mixture of colors light is made of corpuscles (particles) |
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Huygens |
11629-1695 wave theory of light |
