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Topic 5: Scientific Advances
ANDREAS VESALIUS
He is from Belgium. He was
an anatomist, physician, and author of one of
the most influential books on human
anatomy, De humani corporis fabrica (On the
Fabric of the Human Body). Vesalius is often
referred to as the founder of modern human
anatomy. They were based on actual
dissections of human bodies (after death).
GALILEO GALILEI
Galileo (1564-1642) was an astronomer, philosopher,
mathematical and physical one of the fathers of
the scientific revolution. After publishing studies
of Geometry, mechanics, mathematics, invent
a water pump, the first thermometer and discover the
law of uniformly accelerated movement (physics),
learned that in Holland had invented a lens that
allowed seeing Distant Objects
ISAAC NEWTON
Mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and
inventor English (1643-1727), is the author of
the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia
Mathematica, better known as the beginning,
in which he described the law of universal
gravitation and established the bases of the
classical mechanics, employing the laws that carry its name. These laws opposed
the Aristotelian idea that there are light bodies that rise.
HE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
Is known thus to the period in which they develop, in Europe, inventions and
discoveries by those who face the knowledge from the Rationalism and
empiricism, and reject the doctrines that had prevailed since the old. The influx
of America was fundamental to questioning the knowledge of the Greek, Latin and
Eastern Traditions: t
THE RENAISSANCE
The Renaissance was the bridge between the
middle age and the modern age. This cultural
movement began in Florence (Italy), in the 14th
century, and spread throughout Europe until the
17th. Exerted great influence on the development
of science, philosophy, art, literature, politics, and
religion. Its main characteristics were:
Nicolás Copernicus was born and died in
Poland (1473-1543). It was a Catholic priest,
mathematician, jurist, civil leader, military and
diplomat. But its importance is due to who was
the first to say that the sun is the
Center of a system of planets, among them the
Earth, that revolves around it (theory
heliocentric of the Universe). I