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| A development which arose in the early sixteenth century with the cosmological discoveries of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543). Copernicus, going against the current belief that the Earth was stationary and at the center of the universe, hypothesized a Sun-centered (heliocentric) universe with a moveable Earth. |
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| The earth is the center of the solar system |
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| Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato, the tutor of Alexander the Great, and the author of works on logic, metaphysics, ethics, natural sciences, politics, and poetics, he profoundly influenced Western thought. In his philosophical system, which led him to criticize what he saw as Plato's metaphysical excesses, theory follows empirical observation and logic, based on the syllogism, is the essential method of rational inquiry. |
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| The sun is the center of the universe |
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| came up with the heliocentric theroy |
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| More accurate position of planets |
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Laws of Planatery Motion
-Planents do not move at the same motion
-Speed is related to the didtance to the sun
-Orbits are elliptical |
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First telescope
Described motion of bodies on earth |
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| Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato, the tutor of Alexander the Great, and the author of works on logic, metaphysics, ethics, natural sciences, politics, and poetics, he profoundly influenced Western thought. In his philosophical system, which led him to criticize what he saw as Plato's metaphysical excesses, theory follows empirical observation and logic, based on the syllogism, is the essential method of rational inquiry. |
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| Working from particular to gereral conclusion |
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| Started wtih general assumption and working backwards |
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Laws of universal gravitation
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| Italian mathematician and physicist who invented the mercury barometer |
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| German physicist: devised a temperature scale and introduced the use of mercury in thermometers. |
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| Swedish astronomer who devised the Celsius temperature scale |
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| An ancient Greek physician and pioneer in the study of anatomy. |
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| Flemish anatomist and surgeon who is considered the founder of modern anatomy. |
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| English physician: discoverer of smallpox vaccine. |
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| Irish-born British physicist and chemist whose precise definitions of chemical elements and reactions began the separation of chemistry from alchemy. |
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