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20 Cards in this Set
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Ptolemy
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Ancient mathematician, astronomer, and geologist.
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Copernicus
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Sun centered universe
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Galileo
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Sun centered universe and was opposed by church.
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Kepler
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Laws of planetary motion
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Bruno
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Died for opinions of a sun centered universe
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Newton
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Gravity
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Vesalius
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printed copies and descriptions of human disection
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Galen
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Worked on anatomy in ancient times
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Harvey
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studied circulatory system
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Malpighi
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Worked on human anatomy
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Leeuwenhoek
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Discovered cells
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De Graaf
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Made discoveries in reproductive biology
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Napier
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Invented logarithms
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Pascal
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Theory of probabilities
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Leibniz
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Invented Calculus
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Tycho Brahe
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Known for his planetary observations
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Logarithms
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Merely an exponent
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Epicycles
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Way of explaining planetary rotation
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geocentricism
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Earth centered universe
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Heliocentric theory
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Sun centered
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