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Scientific Revolution (Women in the Scientific Revolution (Margaret…
Scientific Revolution
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Astronomers:
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Kepler - German astronomer, Brahe's assistant - elliptical orbits
Galileo - named the moons of Jupiter after the Medicis since he worked for one of them - popularized Copernicus' map
Newton - believed that the planets and all other physical objects in the universe moved through mutual attraction, or gravity
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Philosophers:
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Rene Descartes: "I think, therefore I am"
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Made a scientific method that relied more on deduction (reasoning from general principal to arrive at specific facts - then empirical observation & induction)
Scientific induction - scientists drew generalizations derived from the test hypotheses against empirical observations
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