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The Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment

The Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment. By: Kevin Ingram. Nicolas Copernicus. Field of Science: Astronomer. He thought the earth was not stationary he also said the earth turned on its axis once a day and he doubted the earth lay in the middle of the universe. . Johannes Kepler.

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The Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment

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  1. The Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment By: Kevin Ingram

  2. Nicolas Copernicus • Field of Science: Astronomer He thought the earth was not stationary he also said the earth turned on its axis once a day and he doubted the earth lay in the middle of the universe.

  3. Johannes Kepler • Field of Science: mathematician, astronomer and astrologer Best known for his laws of planetary motion

  4. Francis Bacon • Field of Science: philosopher father of the scientific method

  5. Isaac Newton • Field of Science: physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian universal gravitation and the three laws of motion

  6. Gabriel Fahrenheit • Field of Science: physicist best known for inventing the alcohol thermometer (1709) and the mercury thermometer (1714)

  7. William Harvey • Field of Science: physician first person to describe completely and in detail the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped to the body by the heart

  8. Robert Boyle • Field of Science: natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry

  9. Tycho Brahe • Field of Science: astronomer known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations

  10. Andreas Vesalius • Field of Science: anatomist, physician, and author often referred to as the founder of modern human anatomy

  11. Galileo Galilei • Field of Science: physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations and support for Copernicanism.

  12. Renes Descartes • Field of Science: philosopher and writer He has been dubbed the 'Father of Modern Philosophy'

  13. Zacharias Janssen • Field of Science: Optics, Microscopy, Telescopy associated with the invention of the first optical telescope. Jansen is sometimes also credited for inventing the first truly compound microscope

  14. Anders Celsius • Field of Science: astronomer he proposed the Celsius temperature scale which takes his name

  15. Edward Jenner • Field of Science:

  16. Robert Hooke • Field of Science:

  17. Antoine Lavoisier • Field of Science:

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