Scientific people Flashcards
Ptolemy and Aristotle
Believed in geocentricity
Made a pretty accurate map of Earth
Church loved them
Rationalists
Thought in a very ordered/ rational/ reasonable way
St. Thomas Aquinas
Tried to show how the Church’s ideas and the Greek ideas are similar
Showed how Aristotle’s ideas agreed with the Church
Believed every living things has a soul
Torricelli
Invented the barometer
Measures air pressure
Helped forecast weather
Van Leeuwenhoek
Father of microbiology
Created the first microscope (not like the ones today)
Alchemist
tried to turn metal into gold
Sir Isaac Newton
created calculus and found the three laws of gravity/motion
Martin Luther
created 95 theses
translated new testament into german
created the protestant church and lutheran church
Nicolaus Copernicus
Wrote the book “On the heavenly revolution of heavenly spheres”
Found out the Earth revolved the sun
Killed himself so the church wouldn’t execute him
Johannes Kepler
Created Kepler’s 3 laws of planetary motion
Found out planets move in an oval shape
Alchemy/Alchemists
Father of Chemistry
Used nature and the elements
Church didn’t like it
Thought it was witchcraft or wizardry
Galileo Galilei
Astronomer
First person to look at the sky with a telescope
Discovered lots of astronomical things
Tycho Brahe
An astronomer
Charted over 750 stars
Believed in a heliocentric solar system
Zacharias Janssen
Invented a prototype of the microscope
Used the microscope to make very fake coins
Isaac Newton
Created the 3 laws of gravity/motion
