________, who renamed himself Paracelsus, traveled widely and may have been awarded a medical degree from the University of Ferrara in Italy.
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Galileo
________ was dragged once more before the Inquisition in 1633, found guilty of teaching the condemned Copernican system, and forced to recant his errors.
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Berlin Academy
Winkelmann's difficulties with the ________ reflect the obstacles women faced in being accepted in scientific work, which was considered a male preserve.
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Plato
Mathematics, so fundamental to the scientific achievements of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, was promoted in the Renaissance by the rediscovery of the works of ancient mathematicians and the influence of ________, who had emphasized the importance of mathematics in explaining the universe.
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Kepler
________ published his first two laws of planetary motion in 1609.
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Harvey
________ demonstrated that the heart and not the liver was the beginning point of the circulation of blood in the body, that the same blood flows in both veins and arteries, and most importantly, that the blood makes a complete circuit as it passes through the body.
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Copernicus
________ argued that the universe consisted of eight spheres with the sun motionless at the center and the sphere of the fixed stars at rest in the eighth sphere.
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Jean de La Bruye
________ 're, the seventeenth century French moralist, was typical when he remarked that an educated woman was like a gun that was a collector's item, which one shows to the curious, but which has no use at all, any more than a carousel horse.
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Leonardo da Vinci
________ devised "war machines, "and Albrecht Du ̈rer made designs for the fortifications of cities.
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New Heaven
Toward a(n) ________: A Revolution in Astronomy.
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Danish nobleman
A(n) ________, Tycho Brahe was granted possession of an island near Copenhagen by King Frederick II.
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Newton
Although ________ may have considered himself a representative of the Hermetic tradition, he chose, it has been recently argued, for both political and psychological reasons to repress that part of his being, and it is as the "symbol of Western science "that he came to be viewed.
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English village of Woolsthorpe
Born in the ________ in 1642, Isaac Newton was an unremarkable young man until he attended Cambridge University.
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early Scientific Revolution
Kepler's work illustrates well the narrow line that often separated magic and science in the ________.
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Johannes Kepler
________ had been destined by his parents for a career as a Lutheran minis- ter.
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Antoine Lavoisier
In the eighteenth century, ________ invented a system of naming the chemical elements, much of which is still used today.
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Boyle
________ also rejected the medieval belief that all matter consisted of the same components in favor of the view that matter is composed of atoms, which he called "little particles of all shapes and sizes "and which would later be known as the chemical elements.
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Marie Anne Lavoisier
________ is a reminder that women too played a role in the Scientific Revolution.
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Cavendish
________ was not a popularizer of science for women but a participant in the crucial scientific debates of her time.
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Robert Boyle
________ was one of the first scientists to conduct controlled experiments.
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Paracelsus
________ had turned against the Galenic principle that "contraries cure "in favor of the ancient Germanic folk principle that "like cures like ..
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Renaissance artists
________ have also been credited with making an impact on scientific study.
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Galileo
________ was the first European to make systematic observations of the heavens by means of a telescope, thereby inaugurating a new age in astronomy.
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Toward a New Heaven
A Revolution in Astronomy
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Johannes Kepler had been destined by his parents for a career as a Lutheran minis
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Kepler's three laws effectively eliminated the idea of uni
form circular motion as well as the idea of crystalline spheres revolving in circular orbits
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Instead of peering at terrestrial objects, Galileo turned his telescope to the skies and made a remarkable series of discoveries
mountains and craters on the moon, four moons revolving around Jupiter, the phases of Venus, and sunspots
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In 1632, he published his most famous work, Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems
Ptolemaic and Copernican
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Treatment of disease was highly influenced by Galen's doctrine of four bodily humors
blood, considered warm and moist; yellow bile, warm and dry; phlegm, cold and moist; and black bile, cold and dry