Scientific Revolution

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  1. 4. Created a smallpox vaccine
  2. 6. Began his career as an assistant to the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. Formulated three laws of planetary motion. Proved that planetary orbits are elliptical rather than circular.
  3. 7. Created a mercury thermometer that showed water freezing at 0 degrees.
  4. 8. 15th century invention which revolutionized the ability to print information which in turn affected the speed of the spread of information itself.
  5. 12. Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars
  6. 14. Made the first mercury thermometer to use mercury in glass showed water freezing at 32 degrees.
  7. 17. A philosopher of rationalism who advocated for doubting all sources of truth in order to develop a more rational understanding of reality. "I think, therefore I am"
  8. 19. Developed the scientific method
  9. 20. The Polish church caretaker/administrator and astronomer who's On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies significantly advanced the sun centered or heliocentric universe idea
  10. 21. A device built to observe distant objects by making them appear closer
  11. 22. Father of modern chemistry
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  1. 1. Idea that the earth and the other planets revolve around the sun.
  2. 2. Earth is the center of the Universe
  3. 3. Wrote one of the most influential human anatomy books "On the Fabric of the Human Body" and was considered the father of modern human anatomy.
  4. 5. Used the microscope to examine red blood cells.
  5. 9. Invented the barometer to measure atmospheric pressure.
  6. 10. A major change in European thought, starting in the mid-1500s, in which the study of the natural world began to be characterized by careful observation and the questioning of accepted beliefs.
  7. 11. An instrument that makes small objects look larger
  8. 13. Galileo's ideas were called heresy because they went against the teachings of the
  9. 15. An eyeglasses maker and he invented the first microscope
  10. 16. Danish astronomer who collected data to prove that Copernicus was correct and Kepler worked as his assistant
  11. 18. English mathematician and physicist; remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion. Wrote Principia.