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What did Nicolaus Copernicus do?
Proposed the heliocentric model for the first time.
What did Johannes Kepler do?
Developed 3 laws of planetary motion.
What did Galileo do?
Proved the heliocentric model.
What did Isaac Newton do?
Developed his laws of motion and law of universal gravitation, started that the universe follows natural laws.
What did Andreas Vesalius do?
Studied anatomy with cadavers.
What did Blaise Pascal do?
Studied liquids under pressure.
What did Robert Boyle do?
Discovered that pressure impacts gas volume (boyle’s law).
What did Antoine Lavoisier do?
Father of modern chemistry, he established the law of conservation of mass, determined that combustion and respiration are caused by chemical reactions with what he named “oxygen,” and helped systematize chemical nomenclature, among many other accomplishments.
What did Margret Cavendish do?
She was a philosopher who stated that man does not control nature.
What did Maria Winklemann do?
She studied the planets and discovered a comet.
What did Rene Descartes do?
Writes discourse on method, and has two major principals “I think, therefore I am” and “Mind cannot be doubted but the material world can be, so the two must be radically different.”
What did Sir Francis Bacon do?
He developed the scientific method and inductive reasoning.
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