The Great Minds Of Science During The Scientific Revolution by SANTINO MENG

1473-1543 Nicolas Copernicus

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He was a Polish priest and mathematician. He denies the medieval belief, inherited from the classical Greek Astronomer Ptolemy(90-168), that the Earth is the center of the universe, and develops the revolutionary theory that the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun (heliocentric theory) in his De Revoltionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres, completed 1530)

1514-1564 Andreas Versalius

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He was a Belgian physician and anatomist. In his De Humani Coprois fabrica libri septem (Seven Books on the Structure of the Human Body 1543) he describes human anatomy more accurately then the classical Greek scientist Galen (130-201), whose works have been the standard reference thoughout medieval Europe. His work brings a sentence of death from the Inquistion(Catholic Church tribunal) for immorality but he is not executed.

1561-1626 Francis Bacon

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He was a English philosopher. His Novum Organum (1620) stresses the importance of proper scientific method: theories must be supported by proof acquried by experimentation and observation

1564-1642 Galileo Galilei

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He was Italian mathematician and astronomer. The first to use telescopes for astronomy. He describes the surface of the Moon and the rotation of the moons of Jupiter. Also establishes basic laws of motion from experimentation. He is arrested by the Inquisition and forced to recant the endorsement of the heliocentric theory made in his Dialogo dei due massimi sistemi del mondo (Dialogue concerning the Two Chief Word Systems 1632)

1571-1630 Johannes Kepler

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He was a German mathematician and astronomer. Accepts the heliocentric theory after examining data gathered by the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601). His Astronomia nova (New Astronomy 1609) and De Harmonice mundi (Harmonies of the World 1619) explain that the orbits of the planet are elliptical and not circular as Copemicus has suggest

1578-1657 William Harvey

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He was a physician and anatomist. He discovers the circulation of the blood and describes the purpose of arteries, veins and the heart in De motu cordis et sanguinis in animalinus (On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in animals 1628).

1596-1650 Rene Descartes

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He was French philosopher and mathematician. Develops analytic geometry and other mathematical techniques useful in theoretical science. He believes that mathematical proof is he model for rational scientific inquiry. His best known philosophical work, Meditationes de prime philosophia (Meditations of the First Philosophy 1641) emphasizes the importance of accepting only indubitable evidence.

1629-1693 Christiaan Huygens

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He was a Dutch Physicist and astronomer. He proposes the wave theory of light, discovers the rings of Saturn and builds the first reliable pendulum clock (Originally an idea of Galileo's)

1627-1691 Robert Boyle

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He was an Irish physicist and chemist. He investigates the properties of air and develops a theory describing the relationship between the pressure and volume of gasses (knows as Boyle's law). In the Sceptical Chemist (1661) he questions the accepted belief that the world is made up of just four element (Earth,Air,Fire,Water) and argues that the can be broken down into more funamental,chemical elements

1632-1723 Anton van Leeuwenhoek

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He was a Dutch biologist. He designs a powerful microscope and uses it to describe bacteria,protozoa,spermatozoa, and blood corpuscles.

1642-1727 Issac Newton

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He was English physicist and mathematician. One of the greatest theoretical scientists in history. He discovers the law of gravitation after studying Kelper's laws of planetary motion, and formulates three laws of motion which form the basis of physics until the 20th century (called Newtonian mechanics).Also invents the reflecting telescope(uses curved mirror to focus light), and develops the mathematical system known as calculus. Best known work is Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica (The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy 1687)

1743-1794 Antoine Lavoisier

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He was a French chemist. In Traite elementarie de chimie(Elementary Treatise on Chemisty 1789) he describes the constituent gasses of air (calling the two most significant,oxygen and nitrogen), and shows that combustion can only take place in the presence of oxygen.Develops the modern system for naming chemical compounds and proposes that is never destroyed in chemical reaction (Law of Conversation of Matter).