Timeline by Eli Balogun

1473-1543 Nicolas Copernicus

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Polish priest and mathematician He denies the medieval belief inhertied from the classical Greek astronomer Ptolmely that the earth is the center of the universe and develops the revolutionary theory that the earth and planets revolve around the sun

1561-1626 Francis bacon

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English philosopher His Novum Organum stresses the importance of proper scientific method theories must be supported by proof aquired by experiment and obversation

1561-1657 William Harvey

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English physician and anatomist. He discovers the circulation of the blood and decribes the purpose of arties veins and heart in De motu cordis et anguish in anmailbus

1596-1650 Rene' Descartes

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French philosopher and mathematician Develops analytic geometry and other mathematical proof Is the model for rational scientific inquiry. His best known Philosophical work medatations de prima Philosophia

1627-1691 Robert boyle

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Irish physicist and chemist he inviestagates the properties of air and develops Analytic geometry and other mathematical techniques useful in thoretical describes the relationship between the pressure and volume of gasses in the secpitcal chemist he questions the accepted belief that the world is made up of four elements earth air fire wind

1743-1794 Antoine Lavoisier

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French chemist in Traite de chimie he describes the constituent gasses of air the two most significant oxygen and nitrogen and shows that conbustion can only take in the presence of oxygen developes the modern system for naming chemical compounds and proposes that mater is never destroyed in chemical reactions

1514-64 Andreas Vesalius

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Belgian physician and anatomist in his de humanity He describes human anatomy more accurately than the classical greek scientist Galen whose works have been the standard reference throughout medieval Europe His work brings a sentence death from the inquisition for immorality but not executed

1564-1642 Galileo Galilei

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Italian mathematician and scientist 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 inquistion and forced to recant the edorsment of the heliocentiric thoery made

1571-1630 Johannes Kepler

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German mathematician and astronomer Accepts the heliocentric theory after examming data gathered by the danish astronomer Tyco Brahe His Astronomia nova explain that orbits of planets are ellipitacal and not circular as copernicus has suggested

1629-1693 Christiaan Huygens

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Dutch physicist and astronomer. He proposes the wave theory of light discovers the rings of Saturn and bulids the first reliable pendulum clock

1632-1723 Anton van Leeuwenhoek

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

1642-1727 Issac Newton

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English physicist and mathematician. one of the greatest theortical scientists in history. He discovers the law of gravittation after studying Kepler's laws of plantaery motion and formula's three laws of motion and formulas physics until the 20th century