World Civ-For Scientist, Composer, Artist, And Writer Test

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William Harvey

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*English
*described circulation of blood for 1st time.
*showed how the heart serves as a pump to force blood through veins and arteries.

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Anthony van Leeuwenhoek

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*Dutch inventor
*perfected the microscope
*1st human to see cells and microorganisms.

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baroque

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courtly art and architecture:
grand, complex style

*huge, colorful, and full of excitement. Glorified battle scenes or the lives of saints.

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rococo

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style of art and architecture
*personal, elegant, and charming. Furniture and tapestries featured delicate shells and flowers.

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Rembrandt van Rijn

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*dutch painter
*conferred great dignity on merchants and other ordinary, middle-class subjects.
*painted many portraits of middle class people.

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What kind of new musical entertainment evolved during this era?

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Ballets and Operas

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What kind of new musical entertainment evolved during this era?

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Ballets and Operas

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Johann Sebastian Bach

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*German composer, and devout Lutheran
*wrote complex and beautiful religious works for the organ and choirs.
*-Brandenburg Concerto-

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George Fredrick Handel

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*German-born composer although he spent much time in England.
*-Water Music-
*-Messiah- :combines instruments and voices. today its standard at Christmas and Easter programs.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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*Austrian
*6 yr old prodigy
* over next 3 decadces his operas, symphonies, and religious works. Helped define the new style of composition
*died in poverty at 35.

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Daniel Defoe

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*English
*-Robinson Crusoe- :sailor shipwrecked on a tropical island.

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Samuel Richardson

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*English
*-Pamela- :used a series of letters to tell a story about a servant girl.

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Francis Bacon

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*English
*involved w/ the scientific method
*emphasized observation and reasoning.
*wanted science to make the life of people better by leading to practical technologies.

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Rene Descartes

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*French
*-Discourse on Method-
*emphasized human reasoning as the best road to understanding
*"I think, therefore I am"

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Sir Isaac Newton

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*English
*apple fall from a tree??
*named force of Gravity.
*using math, showed that a single force keeps the planets in their orbits around the sun.
*-Mathematical Principles on Natural Philosophy-
*all motion in the universe can be measured and described mathematically.
*calculus

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Robert Boyle

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*distinguished individual elements and chemical compounds.
*explained the effect of temperature and pressure on gases.
*work opened the way to modern chemical analysis of the composition of matter.

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Andreas Vesalius

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*-On the Structure of the Human Body-
*1st accurate and detailed study of the human anatomy.

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Ambroise Paré

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*French
*developed a new and more effective ointment for preventing infection.
*developed a technique for closing wounds with stitches.

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Galileo Galilei

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*scientist
*assembled an astronomical telescope.
*observed the 4 moons of Jupiter, seeing that they moved around the planet exactly the way copernicus said that the Earth moved around the sun.
*discoveries caused an uproar and was tried before the Inquisition, + w/drew statement in order not to die.

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Ptolemy

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Greek astronomer who's theories were accepted by European scholars until the mid 1500s. Matched the teachings of the church.
*earth is the center of the universe.

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Nicolaus Copernicus

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*Polish
*On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
*heliocentric, or sun-centered, model of the universe
* earth just one of the planets revolving around the sun.

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Tycho Brahe

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*Danish
*astronomer
*provided evidence that supported Copernicus' theory.
*set up an astronomical observatory and observed the sky accumulate data about the movements of the heavenly bodies every night for 8 years.

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Johannes Kepler

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*German astronomer +mathemetician
*Brahe's assistant
*calculated the orbits of the planets revolving around the sun .
* planets move in an ELLIPSE: oval-shaped orbit the planets move in.