Unit 1: Scientific revolution Flashcards
Galileo Galilae
Def: astronomer, physicist, engineer (1564-1642)
Sig: disproved aristolean ideas of motion, invented thermometer, calculated mass of air, founded science of mechanics, discovered new space things
Tycho Brahe
Def: Danish astronomer
Sig: known for accurate and comprehensive astronomical observations
Nicolaus Copernicus
Def: mathematician and astronomer
Sig: discovered that sun was in the center and the earth moved (revolutionary) “first pebble rolling in the avalanche of the scientific revolution”
Heliocentric theory
Def: having the sun at the center
Sig: changed the world forever, opposed by catholic church, began snowball
William Harvey
Def: english physician
Sig: discovered circulation of blood and that heart was a pump, which ended up leading to other problems lol
Johannes Kepler
Def: German astronomer
Sig: tried to find the universes mathematical formula, instead found 3 laws of planetary motion (elliptical orbit)
Rene Descartes
Def: french philosopher, mathematician and scientist
Sig: inventor of co-ordinate geometry and believed key to the universe was math. “I think therefore I am” and believer!!
Francis Bacon
Def: English philosopher
Sig: 4 steps to scientific investigation, did not believe in bind faith.
Gotfried Leibniz
developed notion for differential and integral calculus, invented calculating machine
Blaise Pascal
laid the foundation for modern theory of probabilities
