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Scientific Revoloution Flashcards

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Copernicus

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Came up w/Heliocentric theory

No one payed attention

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Roger Bacon (1200s)

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“Doctor Mirabilis”-> wonderfull teacher
Alchemist/scientist
Science>blind faith

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Ptolemy

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Geocentric theory

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Johannes Kepler

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Tested and proved Copernicus’s Heliocentric Theory

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Galileo Galilei

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Built his own telescope
Argued that not all heavenly bodies move around Earth
Published findings-> causes uproar
Proved Aristotle wrong-> heavier objects do NOT fall faster than lighter ones.

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Newton

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Universal law of Gravitation

Explained laws of motion

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Andreas Vesalius

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Denied Galen’s descriptions of human anatomy-> conducted his own research
Sketched all parts of human body

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William Harvey

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Studied circulation of blood+heart

Explained how blood moves through veins and arteries

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Descartes

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ALL ASSUMPTIONS MUST BE PROVEN ON BASIS OF FACT
Challenged churche
Forced to live in Sweden

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Francis Bacon

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No assumptions can be trusted unless proven by repeatable experiments

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