Scientific Revolution and Key Figures

Flashcards covering major concepts and figures from the Scientific Revolution.

Anton van Leeuwenhoek

Improved the microscope.

Antoine Lavoisier

Known as the 'Father of Biology' for naming elements and studying gas laws.

Robert Boyle

Formulated Boyle's Law concerning the relationship between pressure and volume of gases.

Blaise Pascal

Developed Pascal's Law relating to the behavior of liquids under pressure.

Margaret Cavendish

Criticized the idea that men were the masters of nature and published under her own name.

René Descartes

Famous for the statement 'I think therefore I am'; developed deductive reasoning and rationalism.

Sir Francis Bacon

Established the Scientific Method emphasizing empiricism and inductive reasoning.

Scientific Revolution

A period in the 17th and 18th centuries introducing new theories, laws, and instruments in Europe.

Nicholas Copernicus

Proposed the heliocentric theory, positioning the sun at the center of the universe.

Johannes Kepler

Formulated laws of planetary motion, including the concept of ellipses.

Galileo Galilei

Used the telescope to support Copernicus' theories and was declared a heretic by the Church.

Maria Winkelmann

Discovered a comet and applied to be a professor, but was denied.

Sir Isaac Newton

Formulated the three laws of motion and the universal law of gravitation; authored 'Principia Mathematica'.

Andreas Vesalius

Pioneered the study of human anatomy, focusing on organs and their positions.

William Harvey

Discovered the circulation of blood in the body.

Robert Hooke

Discovered plant cells.