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The Scientific Revolution (Nicolaus Copernicus (Isaac Newton (Gravity,…
The Scientific Revolution
Nicolaus Copernicus
on the revolutions of the heavenly spheres
Proposed a
heliocentric
Isaac Newton
formed theory to explain why the planets moved as they did.
Gravity
Tycho Brahe
Danish Astronomer in 1500's
observed the sky in an astronomical observatory.
Johannes Kepler
used Brache's data to calculate orbits of the planets.
Galileo
Assembled an Astronomical Telescope
his observations contradicted ancient views about the world
Robert Boyle
refined the alchemists' view of chemicals as basic building blocks
Francis Bacon
challenged scholarly traditions of the medieval universities that sought to make the physical world fit in with the teachings of the Church
René Descartes
devoted themselves to understanding how truth is determined
