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Jan 1, 1543
Copernicus
- first idea for the earth revolving around the sun
- published his Concerning the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres
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Period: Jan 1, 1543 to
Scientific/Government Advancement
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Kepler steps in
Offers the first accurate description of the image of the eye including the retina's inverted image -
Beginning of Galileo
-Galileo begins his work with astronomical observations with his telescope -
Galileo's Findings
- published his findings of sunspots "Letters of Sunspots"
- observations on phases of Venus and the moons of Jupiter with his telescope
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Harvey's Discovery
-William Harvey announced his discovery of the circulatory system
-later in 1628 he published "De Motu Cordis" which is the movement of the heart
-Gives the first accurate description of the blood circulation and predicts capillares (but with lack of evidence was not able to confirm findings) -
Kepler's Law
- speaks about his third law and final law of planetary motion
- discovered laws of planetary motion
- motion is elliptical not circular
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Bacon
- publishes Novum Organum
- rejected deductive reasoning in science
- philosophic basis for controlled experiments and modern science
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Galileo's Dialogue
- Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems of the World
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In Trouble?
- Galileo's trial!!!
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Descartes
- Development of the Scientific Method
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Toricelli
- Evangelista Toricelli developed the first barometer of mercury
- first vacuum known to science
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Pascal
- Blaise Pascal experimented with barometers and the discovery that light still passes through a vacuum
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Hobbes
- publishes Leviathan
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Pascal's Pensees
- Posthumous publication of Pacal's Pensees
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Start of Newton
- published his "Principia" -aka. laws of motion and universal gravitation
- contributes to calculus
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Locke's Treatises
- John Locke's Two Treatises on Government
- Later in 1690 Locke wrote an essay on Human Understanding
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Newton
- Work with optics
- reflection/refraction of light on the visible light spectrum
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Spirit of Laws
- Montesquieu's publication of "Spirit of Laws"