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Scientific Revolution (Rene Descartes (made the phrase "I think,…
Scientific Revolution
Rene Descartes
- made the phrase "I think, There for, I am"
- Dubbed the father of modern western philosophy
- was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist
Education: University of Poitiers (1614–1616), Leiden University, Prytanée National Militaire
Galileo
- was an Italian polymath: astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician
- He played a major role in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century.
- Known for: Kinematics, Analytical dynamics, Telescope, Heliocentrism
- Discovered: Callisto, Ganymede, Europa, Io, Rings of Saturn
Isaac Newton
- was an English mathematician, astronomer, and physicist
- widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.
- Education: Trinity College, Cambridge
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Copernicus
- was a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer
- formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe
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Francis Bacon
- was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author 2. served both as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England 3. Education: Trinity College, Cambridge, University of Cambridge, University of Poitiers
hypothesis
a supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation.
Scientific Method
a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
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Near the end of the Renaissance, the Scientific Revolution began
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