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10 Cards in this Set
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Brahe |
Moon and Sun orbit Earth; other planets orbit Sun |
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Lavoisier |
Law of Conservation of Mass; role of oxygen in combustion reactions; stoichiometry |
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Aristotle |
Geocentrism with crystal spheres, taught by Catholic Church in Middle Ages and early Renaissance |
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Newton |
Universal law of gravitation; 3 Laws of Motion; physics |
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Ptolemy |
Geocentrism with epicycles |
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Copernicus |
Heliocentrism, ideas rejected by Catholic Church after his death |
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Kepler |
Eliptical planetary orbits with variable speeds |
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Galen |
Bodily humours, prevailing philosophy for medicine and biology through Middle Ages |
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Descartes |
"I think, therefore I am"; modern rationalism |
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Bacon |
Scientific Method |
