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Thomas Veiblen and Karl Marx

• Presented ideas related to Technological Determinism

Caesar Augustus

• One of ancient Rome’s most successful leaders

• First emperor of Rome.

Roger Bacon

• credited with the process of making gunpowder, proposed flying machines, motorized ships and carriages, and invented the magnifying glass.

Leonardo da Vinci

• Incorporated scientific principles such as anatomy

• Recreated the human body with extraordinary precision

• Mona Lisa

• The Vitruvian Man

Filippo Brunelleschi

• Studied mathematics to accurately engineer and design immense buildings with expansive domes

Galileo Galilei

• Presented a new view of astronomy and mathematics

• Observed the different phases of the moon

Nicolaus Copernicus

• proponent of Heliocentric Theory

Rene Descarte

• Deductive reasoning through his works on “Discourse on Methods”

Joseph Schumpeter

• proposed creative destruction and life and death of industries

George Basalla

• proposed “The Spread of Western Science”

Joseph Banks

• Pacific Voyage (1768-1771) by Cpt. James Cook

• Botanical surveys in Australia (Botany Bay) and New Zealand.

• Collected 30,000 plant species.

Robert Brown

• Australian voyage (1801-1805) by Cpt. Matthew Flinders.

• Collected ~3,900 Australian plant species.

• Published Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van-Diemen (1810).

  • Description of the Australian plant species he observed.

Joseph Dalton Hooker

• Antarctic Expedition (1839–1843) by Cpt. James Clark Ross.

• Botanical expedition in India (1847-1851).

• Published Flora Indica (1855).

Alfred Russel Wallace

• Explored the Malay Archipelago (1854-1862)

• Collected over 125,000 specimens.

• Theory of Natural Selection.

• Wallace Line.

  • Marks species with Asian origins

Francis Bacon

• Proposed the need for rigorous data collection to prove or disprove a proposition

Carl Sagan

Can we know the answer?

Ludwig Fleck

To look, to see, to know

Robert Pirsig

On Scientific Method

David Moshman

Epistemic Development and the Perils of Pluto

Karl Popper

Evolutionary Diagram of Knowledge

Thomas Kuhn

Paradigm Shift Theory

Imre Lakatos

Rational Construction Model

Carl Hempel

Paradox of Confirmation

John Dewey

Instrumentalism

Paul Feyerabend

Epistemological Anarchism

Harold Cohen

• pioneering digital artist to use AARON

Ansel Adams

• One of the greatest landscape photographers

Henri Cartier-Bresson

• Father of street photography

Finley Harper

• Captures fleeting moments

• Images that blend reality and fantasy

Steve Mccurry

• Captured the photo “Afghan Girl“

Annie Leibovitz

• Known for taking pictures of celebrities