Scientific Revolution People

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Copernicus

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Published his ‘On the Revolution if the Heavenly Spheres’ in 1543

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Rene Descartes

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Doubt everything until your reason proves it is true

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Brahe

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Danish astronomer who first saw and named supernovas

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Kepler

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First to realize planets orbited the sun in ovals

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Vesalius

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Published ‘On the Workings of the Human Body’ in 1543

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Lavoisier

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French chemist who said matter couldn’t be created or destroyed

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Hooke

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Studied plants with a microscope and coined the term ‘cell’

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van Leeuwenhoek

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Invented the microscope and the first to see bacteria

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Boyle

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‘Father of chemistry’ who developed a law describing how temperature, volume, and pressure affect gases

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Galileo

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Wrote ‘The Starry Messenger’ in 1610

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Galen

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Ancient Greek who was the “authority” on anatomy for 2000 years

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Newton

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Developed the law of universal gravity

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Harvey

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Described how blood circulated in the body

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Bacon

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Wrote the only way to gain scientific knowledge was through experimentation

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Tartaglia

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Expert on the cannon, he was trying to make it shoot more accurately. Discovered things move in a curving trajectory (because of air resistance (his hunch (so he looked at water)))

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Benedetti

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Surface area, not weight, affects how things move. The more surface area, the more resistance (to water and air). The circular motion becomes straight once you release it.

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Thomas Hobbes

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He thought man was bad by nature. He said men have no right to rebel against their government since without them their lives would be terrible and they gave up all of their rights to the leader/government.

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John Locke

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He thought men were born with a blank slate and the way they acted was because of experience. These experiences came from religion and government so they had to change. He believed men had the right to rebel against their government if they break the social contract (Man gives up some of his rights; in return, the government protects his natural rights to life, liberty, and property. If the government fails to protect their natural rights, they have broken the contract- the people are justified to rebel.).