SCIENTISTS TO KNOWSCIENTISTS TO KNOW

The Scientific Revolution

ASTRONOMYASTRONOMY• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Johannes Kepler

• Galileo

• Heliocentric Theory-Sun centered universe

• Planets revolve around sun in elliptical orbits

• Built 1st telescope (1609); discovered Saturn, craters on moon, moons of Jupiter

PHYSICS AND MATHPHYSICS AND MATH

• Sir Isaac Newton• Newtonian Physics-Clockwork Universe

•Discovers law of universal gravitation

• Developed calculus to predict effects of gravity

• Constructs concept of universe as “orderly system governed by a set of fixed natural laws”(Clockwork Universe)

BIOLOGYBIOLOGY

• Andreas Vesalius

• William Harvey

• Study of human anatomy

• Heart as a pump; accurate description of circulatory system

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• Janssen

• Robert Hooke

• Janssen developed1st microscope

• Discovers the cell (building block of life)

CHEMISTRYCHEMISTRY

• Robert Boyle

• Lavoisier

• Father of modern chemistry; Boyle’s Law

• Law of the Conservation of Mass (Mass can neither be created or destroyed)