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- 1543 - Scientific Revolution - Copernicus
- No room for science in a religious world, the churches censored and killed all the apposed
- 1454 Printing press came about - dissemination of knowledge
- World wide exploration influenced the revolution
- Artists
- scientist
- inventor
- human anatomy
- secretive scientist
- little direct impact on revolution
Nicholas Copernicus 1473-1543
- He waited until just before his death to publish his theories
- He didnt want trouble from the church
- He discovered the sun is in the center of the universe.
- Church banned theory for 200 years
- Age of Herbals - Botany Medicine
- Natural Life - botany book of illustrated plants and descriptions inspired by the book of nature movement
- On anotomical preperations - medicine teaching
- He chalenged Galins teachings, he set out to correct his theories
- He produced "Concerning the Structure of the Human Body," The Fabrica
- This was the most acurate of its time
- The printing press reproduced it well
- There was a huge explosion in the curiosity to the subject.
- The publication cost him his job and the the church attacked him and his theories causing him to move to Spain.
- Conrad categorized all living things
- He created "The History of Animals"
- He started Zoology
- He also included the believable animals and the unbelievable animals he had been told about.
- He was the father of electricity
- Chief physician who was very wealthy
- "Scientific Knowledge is valued only if founded on the basis of practical experiment and observation, idle speculation and theories are worthless unless supported by demonstrable evidence."
- He wrote a book on Earths Magnetism
- Greatest astromoner before the invention of the telescope. Johannes Kepler was his apprentice
- He was given an Island and money to build an observatory/laboratory
- Huge progress was made
- he saw the 1st super nova
- Observational Science boomed
- He was not a scientist but layed down important ground rules for science
- "The great restoration" Father of scientific methods.
- He was a visionary
- He said you should use nature to the benefits of mans state.
- He was a Padua university lecturer on Motion & Mechanics
- He was also an architect
- He took the idea of the telescope and improved it
- he discovered the moon was not smooth, and made of matter
- 1600 - "the messenger of the stars" book was prohibited
- For 15 years he remained silent until a more liberal pope was elected
- 1632 he published "Dialogue on the two chieft systems of the world"
- The church was outraged at theories to do with Coppernicus
- Before his death one of his most important books "Discourses of the two new sciences" and "Ballistics and Dynamics" was smuggled out of the country and published in Holland
- Empherical Vs imperical - clear difference between knowledge and belief
- The renaisance brought about theological revolution and reformation which leads into scientific knowledge
- Astrologer and Mathemetician
- He continued Brahes study
- "Keplers laws of planetary motion"
- He discovered planets made a more elliptical orbit which could be explained through mathematical calculations
- "New Astronomy" in 1509 caused controversy and the book was banned again
- 1619 "Harmonies of the World" 3rd Law
- Padua University lecture Versalius became physician to King Charles 1st
- He discovered the heart was a pump not a heater as Galin suggested.
- "An anatomical essay on the motion of the heart and blood in animals"
- He proved blood flows in the opposite direction in arteries and veins
- His ideas were slowly accepted unlike Vesalius's
- He laid the foundation for more than 300 years of Physiology and anotomny
- He introduced experimental laboratory experiments/methods
- Greatest natural Philosipher
- He challenged our way of thinking, at first his theories were not accepted
- "Discourse of Method," "Meditations" 1637
- He believed everything is made up of matter that is constantly moving
- He used applications of algebra and geometry
- Father of modern philosophy
- British natural Philospher - 17th Century
- Chemistry, physics, medicine, alchemy
- 1650-1687 interesting period in Britain, there was an explosion of interest
- He investigated nature through scientific experiments
- He applied methods of chemistry to nature
- Naturalist, Botanist with a poor family
- He became an expert in languages and science etc at university.
- He was interest in natural theology but was a christian
- He produced a book on plants, birds, mammals, fish and insects and brought order to the species
- in 1682 he published "New method of plants" he classified plants by characteristics of leaves, roots, flowers, seeds and fruit which was a much better classification system.
- Physician & Biologist, anatomy and botany
- He made and used microscopes to research anatomy
- He also studied the chicken embryo in the egg
- Wave theory of light
- Dynamic Theory
- Saturn's Rings theory
- gravity "Horoloium Oscillatorium" laws of centrifugal force
- Newtons studies outweigh his on gravity.
- Fist person to observe bacteria
- he observed tiny organisms using technology
- He discovered a micro world within our existing world
- Laws of elasticity employed by Boyle laid the foundation for the studies of stress
- "Micro Graphia" snowflake book
- Studied light and discovered diffraction
- He discovered that all matter expands with heat
- English scientist studied botany and animal anatomy
- "The anatomy of Plants" 1682
- Chief figure of scientific discovery of the 17th century
- Most important Philosopher
- Invented calculas
- Colour & Light studies
- Planetary motion
- Laws of gravity rediscovered
- He discovered white light is a mixture of pure colours
- Worked on astomony and recorded a star catalouge
- Was involved in editing and printing newtons masterpiece
- Described orbits of 24 comets
- He found out you can plot and predict a comets return journey.
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