Thinkers of the scientific revolution
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William Harvey
made one of the first modern telescopes, published the starry messenger, and made other big discoveries in astronomy
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Sir Isaac Newton
Invented the laws of motion, discovered light is made up of all colors of the rainbow, described gravity
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Johannes Kepler
Invented the 3 laws of planetary motion, invented the keplerian telescope, explained that planets move in elliptical orbits
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Nicolaus Copernicus
Invented the heliocentric model of the solar system (1543)
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Rene Descartes
Invented the Cartesian coordinate system
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Robert Boyle
invented boyle’s law, describes the inverse relationship between pressure and volume of gas
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Anton van leeuwenhoek
developed high power microscopes, first to see red blood cells
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