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16 Cards in this Set
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Nicolas Copernicus
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Heliocentric theory
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Kepler
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-Planetary Motion
-Elliptical Orbits |
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Galileo
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-Law of Pendulum
-Telescope -Law of Falling Objects -Supported Copernican Theory |
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Rene Descartes
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-French
-Analytical Geometry -"I Think; Therefore I am." -"Father of Modern Philosophy" |
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Isaac Newton
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-Calculus
-Laws of Motion -Gravity |
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Zacharias Janssen
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-Dutch Eyeglass Maker
-Microscope |
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek
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-Observed bacteria and red blood cells under miscroscope
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Evangelista Torricelli
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-Italian
Invented Barometer designed telescopes and microscopes |
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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
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Dutch physicist
1st mercury & glass thermometer temperature scale 32 degrees (boiling point) |
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Anders Celsius
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Celsius temp scale
0 for freezing - 100 for boiling thermometer |
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Andreas Vesalius
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medicine
father of human anatomy |
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William Harvey
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blood and heart circulation
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Edward Jenner
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first vaccine
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Robert Boyle
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father of chemistry
pressure and volume- inverse relationship |
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Antoine Lavoisier
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discovered components of water and air
element: cant be broken down by chemical means discovered and named oxygen |
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Frances Bacon
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Scientific (imperical) method
have to prove things to say they're true |
