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William of Ockaham developed the idea now called Occam's razor. Which is "When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is better".
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Nicolaus Copenicus began working on his theory of heliocentricity, which is the now accepted idea that the planets revolve around the sun.
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Adreas Vesalius is called the founder of modern human anatomy. He was a pysician and anatomist and published some of the first works on anoatomy.
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William Gilbert, a follower of Copernicus, published a famous work titled "De Magnete". Some say he is the father of electricity and magnetism. He was the first to point out that Earth itself is a giant magnet.
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In this year, Johannes Kepler created his laws of planetary motion: 1. The orbit of every planet is an ellipse with the sun at a focus. 2. A line joining a planet and the sun sweeps out equal areas during equal intervals of time. 3. The square of the orbital period of a planet is directly proportioned to the cube of the semi major axos of it's orbit.
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Rene' Descartes developes the modern Scietific Method.
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Evangelista Torricelli invents the mercury barometer, he also gave the frist scientific description of wind.
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was the first to study protozoa, he also greatly improved the microscope, he was also the first to describe red blood cells. He is called " The father of microbiology".
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Ole Romer, a Danish asronomer, makes the first quanative measure of the speed of light.
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Gabriel Farenhiet invents the Mercury thermometer.
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Benjamin Franklin discovers the simialarity between electricity and lightning.
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William Herschel discovers Uranus, one of the most distant planets in our solar system.
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Allesandro Volta is the namesake of the term "Volt", He was the first to describe the electric battery as well as Methane.
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Dmitri Mendeleev creates the periodic table of the elements. His first model has been adjusted over time as new elements are discovered.
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Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen discovers X-rays. In 1901 he is award the first Nobel Prize in Pyhsics.
