The Scientific Revolution
individuals during the Scientific Revolution
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- Brahe
- belived the geocentric theory, his theory had 2 points of circulation
- Harvey
- wrote ON THE MOTION OF THE HEART AND BLOOD, discovered the heart was the center of the circulatory system and identified the natural order
- Copernicus
- wrote REVOLUTIONS ON THE HEAVENLY SPHERES, theorized the heliocentric view
- Spinoza
- wrote ETHICS DEMONSTRATED IN THE GEOMETRIC MANNER, rejected Cartesian dualism, was pantheistic, and believed religion must evolve with science
- Paracelsus
- believed mind and matter were one
- Descartes
- wrote DISCOURSE ON METHOD, was a rationalist, believed the Cartesian Split, believed mechanism, created deductive reasoning (the basis of geometry)
- Winklemann
- astronomer who was rejected by society but was successful in her observations
- Galileo
- wrote THE STARRY MESSENGER and DIALOGUE ON THE TWO CHEIF WORLD SYSTEMS(written in the vernacular) he disproves the geocentric view and used the telescope to view Jupiter's 4 moons
- Merian
- wrote METAMOPHISIS OF THE INSECTS OF SURINAM, was and entomologist
- Vesalius
- wrote ON THE FABRIC OF THE HUMAN BODY, dissected the human body and was the first to explore inner organs of the human body, dissproved idea of liver being the center of the circulatory system
- Cavendish
- wrote OBSERVATIONS UPON EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY and GROUNDS OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, believed nature could not be dominated
- Newton
- wrote PRINCIPIA, studied Natural Laws of Motion and Natural Laws of Gravitation, and developed calculus
- Bacon
- wrote NOVUM ORGANUM and THE GREAT INSTAURATION, was the father of modern science, developed inductive reasoning
- Pascal
- wrote PENSEES, brought rationalism into Catholicism, applied the Cartesian Split into Catholicism, developed Pascal's wager
- Kepler
- developed the THREE LAWS OF PLANETARY MOTION which mathematically proved the heliocentric view and also identifies eliptical revolutions