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the first astronomical theories based on accurate telescopic observations
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Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
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http://galileo.rice.edu/bio/index.html
http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/kepler.html |
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path-breaking discoveries in physics, mechanics, mathematics and chemistry
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Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
Robert Boyle (1627-91) |
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/Boyle
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circulation of the blood
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William Harvey (1578-1657)
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http://www.nndb.com/people/269/000085014/
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logarithms: accurate calculations of large figures are practicable for the first time
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John Napier (1550-1617)
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http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Napier.html
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independently devised calculus
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz (1646-1716)
Isaac Newton (1642-1727) |
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Leibniz/RouseBall/RB_Leibnitz.html
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decimal system of expressing fractions
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Simon Stevin (1548-1620)
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http://www.nndb.com/people/895/000096607/
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first digital calculator as a means of helping his father perform tedious tax accounting
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Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
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http://www.educalc.net/196488.page
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Pascal/RouseBall/RB_Pascal.html |
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telescope
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Hans Lippershey (1570-1619)
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http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/timeline/people/lippershey.html
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microscope
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Hans and Zacharias Janssen
Robert Hooke Anton van Leeuwenhoek |
http://inventors.about.com/od/mstartinventions/a/microscope.htm
http://inventors.about.com/od/mstartinventions/a/microscopes.htm |
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stressed the importance of observation and experiment in his influential writings on scientific method
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Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
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http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/bacon/
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