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Historiette Reformation + SciRevolution Flashcards

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Nicholas Copernicus

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Supported heliocentric theory, church didn’t like him, wrote book Motion on Celestial Spheres,

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Tycho Brahe

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Astronomer; developed astronomical instruments

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Galileo Gallilei

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Astronomer, supported heliocentric, Church disliked him, invented thermometer

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Isaac Newton

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Theory of Gravity + calculus, disliked by church

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Zacharias Janssen

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Spectacle maker, first telescope + microscope, contributed to cell theory

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Van Leuwoenhoek

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Biologist, made microscopes, small cell life

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Torricelli

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Invented barometer, perfected calculus

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Francis Bacon

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Invented scientific method

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Rene Descartes

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Mathemetician, Cartesian plane

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